It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Our most compelling resource just might be the ground beneath our feet. When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which every life-form depends? How much undeveloped, untrodden ground do we even have left? Paul Bogard set out to answer these questions in The Ground Beneath Us, and what he discovered is astounding. From New York (where more than 118,000,000 tons of human development rest on top of Manhattan Island) to Mexico...
The Ground Beneath Us by Paul Bogard is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Ground Beneath Us aloud.
The Ground Beneath Us is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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