How long does it take to read Birds, Beasts and Relatives?
Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell takes about 4 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 252 pages, about 69,300 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives is the second volume of the autobiographical Corfu Trilogy by naturalist Gerald Durrell. The trilogy describes his childhood spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939. This follows My family and Other Animals and concludes with The Garden Of The Gods
Subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Natural history, Zoologists, Correspondence, reminiscences, Birds
