It takes the average reader 3 hours and 44 minutes to read Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain by Ann C. Colley
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchester’s Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All were avid collectors and exhibitors of exotic, and frequently unruly, specimens. In her study of Britain’s craze for natural history collecting, Ann C. Colley makes extensive use of archival materials to examine the challenges, preoccupations, and disordered circumstances that attended the amassing of specimens from faraway places only vaguely known to the British public. As scientific institutions sent collectors to bring back exotic animals and...
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain by Ann C. Colley is 218 pages long, and a total of 56,244 words.
This makes it 74% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 7 minutes to read Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain aloud.
Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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