It takes the average reader 2 hours and 44 minutes to read The Lost Amazon by Richard Evans Schultes
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A stunning visual tribute to the greatest Amazonian explorer and ethnobotanist of the twentieth century. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultestook a semester's leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later he returned, having gone places no outsider had been: mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes while collecting some thirty thousand botanical specimens, including two thousand novel medicinal plants and three hundred species new to science. The Lost Amazonis the first major publication to examine Schultes' work as...
The Lost Amazon by Richard Evans Schultes is 159 pages long, and a total of 41,181 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes to read The Lost Amazon aloud.
The Lost Amazon is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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