How long does it take to read Ship Fever?
Andrea Barrett
Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett takes about 4 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 254 pages, about 69,850 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th century. In The behavior of the hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves; in Birds with no feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes; in The English pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.
Subjects: American Historical fiction, Scientists, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Social life and customs, Natural History
