It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Three Wise Monkeys by Charles van Onselen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Volume 1 of Three Wise Monkeys explores the Portuguese colonisation of Mozambique, and the gradual transformation of the colony into a reservoir of cheap labour, first during the Atlantic slave trade and then during the rise of the voracious Rand mining industry. Mozambique became locked into financial dependence on South Africa. The South African mining industry came to own significant parts of the harbour infrastructure of Lourenço Marques. The mining industry's insatiable appetite for pit props gave rise to a globalised trade in timber flowing in from the US, Scandinavia and Australia via...
Three Wise Monkeys by Charles van Onselen is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.
This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Three Wise Monkeys aloud.
Three Wise Monkeys is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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