It takes the average reader 3 hours and 50 minutes to read West of Wisdom by Edwin P. Cutler
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Many years ago Blake Bernard married Ethyl, the daughter of a missionary couple, on a South Pacific island. On their honeymoon cruise they were captured by pirates and the pirate captain attempted to ravish the bride. In the fight, Blake was shot and the pirate's boat caught fire and sank. Ethyl and the pirate escaped, but his treasure chest was lost. Ethyl was a grandmother when she received a mysterious riddle, West of Wisdom, found in a floating bottle. Astarte, her granddaughter, takes an inter-island freighter to find the island where her grandmother was married. When she recites the riddle to the ship's captain, who happens to be the same now much older pirate, he decides she knows the whereabouts of his long lost treasure. She is kidnaped bound and gagged and stuffed in a sail bag. The story starts when a man with a glass eye puts the sack on the deck of Timothy Tyler's sailboat and threatens to take over. Tim refuses to let the man come aboard and sails out into the boundless South Pacific Ocean. When the bag falls into the sea, he looks back and sees a small white hand reaching from the sinking sack. And then...
West of Wisdom by Edwin P. Cutler is 230 pages long, and a total of 57,500 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 14 minutes to read West of Wisdom aloud.
West of Wisdom 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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