It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Stealing Shining Rivers by Molly Doane
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What happens to indigenous people when their homelands are declared by well-intentioned outsiders to be precious environmental habitats? In this revelatory book, Molly Doane describes how a rain forest in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists who initially wanted to conserve its biodiversity. Her case study approach shows that good intentions are not always enough to produce results that benefit both a habitat and its many different types of inhabitants. Doane begins by showing how Chimalapas—translated as “shining rivers”—has been “produced” in...
Stealing Shining Rivers by Molly Doane is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.
This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Stealing Shining Rivers aloud.
Stealing Shining Rivers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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