How Long to Read The Tree In Changing Light

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tree In Changing Light?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 18 minutes to read The Tree In Changing Light by Roger McDonald

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

Description

A beautiful and bestelling meditation on trees Because a tree bloomed seasonally we felt its body like our own. A tree stood still and yet suffered change. A tree growing old grew down into itself. Trees could not heal wounds, only cover them up. Trees were magnificent survivors. Trees got used. Trees behaved erratically under stress. Trees strove to fulfill an ideal shape but were twisted out of it by pressures of existence. In The Tree In Changing Light, Roger McDonald meditates on our unique landscape and its rich tapestry of native and introduced trees, which 'give language to our existence'. His most intimate and personal book to date, it also celebrates country men like his grandfather Chester Bucknall, a forester and pine-planter, of whom he writes, 'I believe him to have been a dreamer about trees'; Wilf Crane, Roger McDonald's mentor with trees who flew planes across country on solo planting raids and whose death while flying inspired this book; and Tom Wyatt, a bush gardener whose dedicated hands made trees bloom in Queensland towns. Here too are historical vignettes of a landscape husbanded for many centuries by Australian Aboriginals, yet swiftly and irrevocably changed by European settlement; encounters with poets and painters inspired by trees; tales of ordinary people for whom trees are talismanic; and interwoven throughout are autobiographical sketches, slices of family history and episodes from Roger McDonald's own life as a writer and sometime planter of trees. An unusual and beautiful book, The Tree In Changing Light,is the moving and personal statement of a writer about his relationship with the land, with language, with memory and with Australia's cultural and literary heritage.

How long is The Tree In Changing Light?

The Tree In Changing Light by Roger McDonald is 195 pages long, and a total of 49,725 words.

This makes it 66% the length of the average book. It also has 61% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Tree In Changing Light Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 31 minutes to read The Tree In Changing Light aloud.

What Reading Level is The Tree In Changing Light?

The Tree In Changing Light is suitable for students ages 10 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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