How long does it take to read Captains Courageous?
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling takes about 2 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 45 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1896. 150 pages, about 41,250 words. Written for young adults.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 991 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. He must work as a ship's boy for a fishing season after being washed overboard from an ocean liner.
Subjects: Teenage boys, Fishers, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Reading, Fisher (Mammal)
