How long does it take to read A Sand County Almanac?
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold takes about 4 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1964. 269 pages, about 73,975 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Sand County Almanac is a collection of essays by ecologist and forester Aldo Leopold that blends natural history, vivid descriptions of landscape, and philosophy. Drawing on the countryside around his Wisconsin farm, Leopold first follows the ecology of each month of the year, then turns to farms and wilderness areas across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Throughout, he argues for a land ethic, a responsible relationship between people and the land where they live, in which conservation means harmony rather than treating land as property to be owned.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Natural history, Nature conservation, Outdoor books, Natural history, outdoor books, Natural history, united states, United States
