How Long to Read The Last Blank Spaces

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Blank Spaces?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 11 minutes to read The Last Blank Spaces by Dane Kennedy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For a British Empire that stretched across much of the globe at the start of the nineteenth century, the interiors of Africa and Australia remained intriguing mysteries. The challenge of opening these continents to imperial influence fell to a proto-professional coterie of determined explorers. They sought knowledge, adventure, and fame, but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, from intention to outcome, from myth to reality. Those who conducted the hundreds of expeditions that probed Africa and Australia in the nineteenth century adopted a mode of scientific investigation that had been developed by previous generations of seaborne explorers. They likened the two continents to oceans, empty spaces that could be made truly knowable only by mapping, measuring, observing, and preserving. They found, however, that their survival and success depended less on this system of universal knowledge than it did on the local knowledge possessed by native peoples. While explorers sought to advance the interests of Britain and its emigrant communities, Dane Kennedy discovers a more complex outcome: expeditions that failed ignominiously, explorers whose loyalties proved ambivalent or divided, and, above all, local states and peoples who diverted expeditions to serve their own purposes. The collisions, and occasional convergences, between British and indigenous values, interests, and modes of knowing the world are brought to the fore in this fresh and engaging study.

How long is The Last Blank Spaces?

The Last Blank Spaces by Dane Kennedy is 359 pages long, and a total of 92,981 words.

This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 114% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Blank Spaces Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 28 minutes to read The Last Blank Spaces aloud.

What Reading Level is The Last Blank Spaces?

The Last Blank Spaces is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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