It takes the average reader 8 hours and 26 minutes to read The Battle for the Buffalo River by Neil Compton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of...
The Battle for the Buffalo River by Neil Compton is 502 pages long, and a total of 126,504 words.
This makes it 169% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 31 minutes to read The Battle for the Buffalo River aloud.
The Battle for the Buffalo River is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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