How long does it take to read Annals of the Former World?
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee takes about 12 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1983. 695 pages, about 191,125 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross-section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with." "Like the terrain it covers, Annals of the Former World tells a many-layered tale, and the reader may choose one of many paths through it, guided by twenty-five new maps and the "Narrative Table of Contents" (an essay outlining the history and structure of the project). Read sequentially, the book is an organic succession of set pieces, flashbacks, biographical sketches, and histories of the human and lithic kind; approached systematically, it can be a North American geology primer, an exploration of plate tectonics, or a study of geologic time and the development of the time scale."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Geology, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Geology, united states, Geology--united states
