How long does it take to read How I Learned Geography?
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2008. 32 pages, about 8,800 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
En esta historia, basada en los recuerdos de su infancia durante la II Guerra Mundial, Uri Shulevitz cuenta cómo un mapa lo llevó, con la ayuda de su imaginación, muy lejos del hambre, la miseria y el sufrimiento. As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
Subjects: Fiction, Maps, Refugees, Childhood and youth, Geography, Imagination
