How long does it take to read Pacific?
Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Pacific by Simon Winchester takes about 9 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2015. 492 pages, about 135,300 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Travel, Ocean and civilization, Geography, Description and travel, History, Civilization
