How long does it take to read Adventures in the Anthropocene?
A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince
Adventures in the Anthropocene by Gaia Vince takes about 8 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 436 pages, about 119,900 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In just a few decades, we humans have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history – we have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary – from the Holocene into the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age to explore what all these changes really mean, especially for the people living on the frontline. This book looks at how we are reshaping our living planet and explores how we might engineer Earth for our future.
Subjects: Social aspects, Global environmental change, Anthropozän, Umweltveränderung, Environment and Ecology
