How long does it take to read Desert Barbarian?
Desert Barbarian by Charlotte Lamb takes about 3 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 189 pages, about 51,975 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Marie Brinton remarked casually that she would be interested to learn more about the Arab way of life, she had hardly expected that within minutes a handsome Arab would appear from nowhere and sweep her off on his horse into the desert. But that, unbelievably, was what happened! But the Arab was not what he seemed, Marie emerged unscathed from her adventure - and that, she supposed with relief, was that. But it wasn't! For she was to meet her desert barbarian again - thousands of miles away this time, in northern India - and by this time she was well and truly in love with him. But he was as far out of her reach as the Arab chieftain she had imagined him to be…
