How long does it take to read A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies?
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas takes about 3 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 168 pages, about 46,200 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Colonies, Treatment of Indians, Spanish colonies, West indies, history
