How Long to Read Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley

How Long Does it Take to Read Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley by Mary H. Kingsley

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A passage from the book... What this book wants is not a simple Preface but an apology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that. Recognising this fully, and feeling quite incompetent to write such a masterpiece, I have asked several literary friends to write one for me, but they have kindly but firmly declined, stating that it is impossible satisfactorily to apologise for my liberties with Lindley Murray and the Queen's English. I am therefore left to make a feeble apology for this book myself, and all I can personally say is that it would have been much worse than it is had it not been for Dr. Henry Guillemard, who has not edited it, or of course the whole affair would have been better, but who has most kindly gone through the proof sheets, lassoing prepositions which were straying outside their sentence stockade, taking my eye off the water cask and fixing it on the scenery where I meant it to be, saying firmly in pencil on margins "No you don't," when I was committing some more than usually heinous literary crime, and so on. In cases where his activities in these things may seem to the reader to have been wanting, I beg to state that they really were not. It is I who have declined to ascend to a higher level of lucidity and correctness of diction than I am fitted for. I cannot forbear from mentioning my gratitude to Mr. George Macmillan for his patience and kindness with me, - a mere jungle of information on West Africa. Whether you my reader will share my gratitude is, I fear, doubtful, for if it had not been for him I should never have attempted to write a book at all, and in order to excuse his having induced me to try I beg to state that I have written only on things that I know from personal experience and very careful observation

How long is Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley?

Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley by Mary H. Kingsley is 366 pages long, and a total of 93,696 words.

This makes it 124% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley aloud.

What Reading Level is Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley?

Travels in West Africa - Mary H. Kingsley is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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