It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we...
The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Gift of Good Land aloud.
The Gift of Good Land is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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