How long does it take to read Caribbean-Limited Ed?
Caribbean-Limited Ed by James A. Michener takes about 12 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1984. 691 pages, about 190,025 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 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A typical Michener roman a clef spanning several hundred years of history of the Caribbean region. Starting with a few chapters of the indigenous history, it evolves to follow the fortunes of families from England, Spain, France and Africa as their experiences as plantation owners, imperial administrators and naval officers, slaves and freemen intertwine over the years to the time of publication of the novel (1980s). From a historical perspective, it educates on the role of sugar in the colonization of the various islands such as Jamaica and Haiti and how the legacy of colonization affects the culture and economic health of the current nations. One particularly interesting set of vignettes is devoted to the Caribbean service of the British naval hero Horatio Nelson.
Subjects: Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Ficción, Fiction, Historia, History
