It takes the average reader 13 hours and 12 minutes to read The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe,...
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley is 768 pages long, and a total of 198,144 words.
This makes it 259% the length of the average book. It also has 242% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 2 minutes to read The Great Deluge aloud.
The Great Deluge is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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