It takes the average reader 11 hours and 17 minutes to read The Book of Firsts by Peter D'Epiro
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world. Peter D’Epiro makes this handy overview of human history both fun and thought-provoking with his survey of the major “firsts”—inventions, discoveries, political and military upheavals, artistic and scientific breakthroughs, religious controversies, and catastrophic events—of the last two thousand years. Who was the first to use gunpowder? Invent paper? Sack the city of Rome? Write a sonnet? What was the first university? The first...
The Book of Firsts by Peter D'Epiro is 672 pages long, and a total of 169,344 words.
This makes it 227% the length of the average book. It also has 207% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 15 hours and 25 minutes to read The Book of Firsts aloud.
The Book of Firsts is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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