How long does it take to read My Family and Other Animals?
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 285 pages, about 78,375 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
My Family and Other Animals is an autobiographical work by naturalist Gerald Durrell, telling of the part of his childhood he spent on the Greek island of Corfu between 1935 and 1939.
Subjects: Natural history, Description and travel, Zoologists, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
