How long does it take to read Lost Trails, Lost Cities?
Percy Harrison Fawcett, Brian Fawcett
Lost Trails, Lost Cities by Percy Harrison Fawcett, Brian Fawcett takes about 6 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 332 pages, about 91,300 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lost Trails, Lost Cities is Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett's memoir of his own exploration and border surveying work in South America. Compiled from letters and journals by his son Brian after Fawcett's untimely disappearance during a journey to find what he dubbed "The Lost City of Z", the book chronicles the waning of the rubber boom and atrocities committed by European colonists and natives alike. Fantastically written with a remarkably unbiased eye, it is not a tale for the unadventurous. In following its pages, the reader is transported to a fantastic and unsettling place that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's everlasting classic The Lost World and countless other stories. But incredible and implausible as it may seem, this story's most impressive aspect is that it is not a work a fiction; but rather a insightful glimpse at a time that once was.
Subjects: Description and travel, aborigines, adventure, amazon, bolivia, border surveying
