It takes the average reader 8 hours and 45 minutes to read The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This book is still one of the great classics of natural history and travel. It contains Wallace's observations of the different native people inhabiting the islands: descriptions of the island groupings, such as the Indo-Malays, the Timors, the Celebes, the Moluccas, and the Papuan Islands, and his accounts of the abundant and strange animals, startling birds, and varied insects, that flourished there. His basic thesis that the western half of the archipelago is Indian in animal life, whereas the eastern is Australian, is still accepted, and the line separating the two is called the Wallace...
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace is 515 pages long, and a total of 131,325 words.
This makes it 174% the length of the average book. It also has 160% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 57 minutes to read The Malay Archipelago aloud.
The Malay Archipelago is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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