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How long does it take to read Pioneer Pottery?

Michael Cardew

Pioneer Pottery by Michael Cardew takes about 6 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 14 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1969. 340 pages, about 93,500 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 23 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 14 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 54 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

When he went to West Africa in the 1940s, Michael Cardew found himself in a land where the potter's art had been flourishing for centuries without the use of wheels, or kilns, or glazes." This book grew out of his desire to share all that he had learned from the African pioneers of pottery."

Subjects: Potters, Pottery craft, Biography, Céramique, Travaux d'amateurs, Pottery, american

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