It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read The Last Voyage of the Scotian by Bill Freeman
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the spring of 1873, Meg and John Bains are ready to return home from a winter working in a lumber camp when they are lured into a trap and shanghaied as crew on a leaky old square-rigged sailing ship in Quebec City. The windjammer is under-manned and the captain is a tyrant, making the voyage a difficult one. But danger is balanced by the excitement of travelling first to Jamaica to take on sugar cane and then to Liverpool. The crossing is dramatic and the trip back to Halifax is even more adventurous as the captain makes a deal to carry 350 immigrants to the new world. It takes five weeks...
The Last Voyage of the Scotian by Bill Freeman is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read The Last Voyage of the Scotian aloud.
The Last Voyage of the Scotian is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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