It takes the average reader 3 hours and 1 minute to read The Many-Coloured Land by Christopher Koch
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When Christopher Koch sets out on a journey through Ireland with his friend the folksinger Brian Mooney, each is seeking an aspect of the past. Mooney is returning to a country where he spent much of his adult life, while two of Koch's great-great-grandmothers came from Ireland to Van Diemen's Land: one of them as a convict. Koch is looking for traces of the mid-nineteenth century: the time of the Famine, which flung the ancestors of so many Irish-Australians across the globe. What he finds, between meetings in pubs with folk musicians and IRA supporters, is modern Ireland. Greatly changed...
The Many-Coloured Land by Christopher Koch is 181 pages long, and a total of 45,431 words.
This makes it 61% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 8 minutes to read The Many-Coloured Land aloud.
The Many-Coloured Land is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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