It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read The Evolution of Charles Darwin by Diana Preston
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From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin’s journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist—he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in...
The Evolution of Charles Darwin by Diana Preston is 385 pages long, and a total of 98,175 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read The Evolution of Charles Darwin aloud.
The Evolution of Charles Darwin is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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