How long does it take to read Landscape and Memory?
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama takes about 11 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 652 pages, about 179,300 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality.
Subjects: Culture, Forests and forestry, History, Human beings, Human ecology, Influence of environment
