How long does it take to read Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life?
James James, James Daschuk
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James James, James Daschuk takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and Canadian politics -- the politics of ethnocide -- played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream."
Subjects: Indians of North America, History, Diseases, Health and hygiene, Government relations, Colonization
