How long does it take to read Pigeon Post?
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome takes about 7 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of Swallows and Amazons series
Previous: Coot Club Next: We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
About 7 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 1936. 383 pages, about 105,325 words. Written for children.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Pigeon Post is the 6th in the Swallows and Amazons series, and was the first winner of the Carnegie Medal, for the best children's book written by a British subject. The only book in the series that does not feature sailing, it's about mining on the Fells of the Lake district. Excellent descriptions of the use of homing pigeons to carry messages.
Subjects: Gold mines and mining, Homing pigeons, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Pigeons, fiction, Swallows (Fictitious characters)
