How Long to Read Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

How Long Does it Take to Read Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park

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

Description

"Until the publication of Park's book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and coastal areas. Having sent out four expeditions to the Niger, all of which had failed, the African Association in 1795 charged Mungo Park with the task. Park, a Scot. set sail [on 22 May 1795] to find and explore the Niger. Travelling eastward from the English factory at Pisania (where he learned the Mandingo language) along the River Gambia, Park reached the Niger at Segou and followed its course for about one hundred miles to Sulla, where difficulties forced him to turn back [and on being taken ill he returned to England in 1799] ... Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the negroes, have remained of lasting value. Park's career was short but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa. Park did not solve the problem of the Niger: he believed it to be a tributary of the Nile or to be really identical with the Congo; but he set the further exploration of the region in the right direction" (Printing and the Mind of Man). -- abebooks website

How long is Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa?

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park is 524 pages long, and a total of 133,096 words.

This makes it 177% the length of the average book. It also has 163% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 7 minutes to read Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa aloud.

What Reading Level is Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa?

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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