How long does it take to read American Earth?
Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
Bill McKibben, Henry David Thoreau, George Catlin, Lydia H. Sigourney, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, George P. Marsh, P. T. Barnum, J. Muir, W. H. H. Murray, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., J. Sterling Morton, Theodore Roosevelt, Mary Austin, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, John Burroughs, Gifford Pinchot, William T. Hornaday, Theodore Dreiser, Gene Stratton-Porter, Henry Beston, Benton MacKaye, Robert Marshall, Don Marquis, Caroline A. Henderson, Donald Culross Peattie, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Woodie Guthrie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Aldo Leopold, Berton Roueché, Edwin Way Teale, Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing, Sigurd F. Olson, E. B. White, Loren Eiseley, William O. Douglas, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Russell Baker, Eliot Porter, Howard Zahniser, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kenneth E. Boulding, Lynn White Jr, Edward Abbey, Paul R. Ehrlich, Garrett Hardin, Philip K. Dick, Colin Fletcher, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stephanie Mills, Gary Snyder, Denis Hayes, Joseph Lelyveld, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Lewis Thomas
American Earth by Bill McKibben, Henry David Thoreau, George Catlin, Lydia H. Sigourney, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, George P. Marsh, P. T. Barnum, J. Muir, W. H. H. Murray, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., J. Sterling Morton, Theodore Roosevelt, Mary Austin, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, John Burroughs, Gifford Pinchot, William T. Hornaday, Theodore Dreiser, Gene Stratton-Porter, Henry Beston, Benton MacKaye, Robert Marshall, Don Marquis, Caroline A. Henderson, Donald Culross Peattie, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Woodie Guthrie, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Aldo Leopold, Berton Roueché, Edwin Way Teale, Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing, Sigurd F. Olson, E. B. White, Loren Eiseley, William O. Douglas, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Russell Baker, Eliot Porter, Howard Zahniser, Lyndon B. Johnson, Kenneth E. Boulding, Lynn White Jr, Edward Abbey, Paul R. Ehrlich, Garrett Hardin, Philip K. Dick, Colin Fletcher, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stephanie Mills, Gary Snyder, Denis Hayes, Joseph Lelyveld, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, John McPhee, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Lewis Thomas takes about 17 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 51 minutes
A long haul
First published 2008. 974 pages, about 267,850 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Ecocriticism, Environmentalism, Nature conservation, United states, environmental conditions
