How long does it take to read 500 Nations?
Alvin M. Josephy, Alvin M. Jr Josephy, Alvin M. Josephy,Jr.
500 Nations by Alvin M. Josephy, Alvin M. Jr Josephy, Alvin M. Josephy,Jr. takes about 8 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 468 pages, about 128,700 words. Written for children.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the stirring, crowded, epic story - laden with courageous deeds and dreams fulfilled and betrayed - of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited our continent for more than 15,000 years and their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans who arrived in ever-increasing hordes after 1492. Here is American history from the Native American point of view - a long saga of friendship, treachery, war, and ultimately the loss of homeland that began when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks, and came to a climax when the last groups of Sioux moved onto a reservation following the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. 500 Nations is a story of leaders, customs, political systems, and ways of life - of men and women whom we meet through their own words, and others whose achievements have been resurrected from memory, memoir, and ancient documents.
Subjects: Indians of North America, History, Indianen, Indiens dÁmérique du Nord, Indiens d'Amérique, Histoire
