How Long to Read The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha

How Long Does it Take to Read The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha?

It takes the average reader 10 hours to read The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha by Susanna B. Hecht

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

Description

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the...

How long is The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha?

The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha by Susanna B. Hecht is 600 pages long, and a total of 150,000 words.

This makes it 202% the length of the average book. It also has 183% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 39 minutes to read The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha aloud.

What Reading Level is The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha?

The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha 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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