How long does it take to read The Covenant?
The Covenant by James A. Michener takes about 19 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 19 hours 22 minutes
A long haul
First published 1980. 1,056 pages, about 290,400 words.
39 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 32 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 19 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An epic novel about South Africa from the early days when only the Bushmen (San) roamed the land through to the days of Apartheid and the dichotomies thrown up by this unreal set of laws. Follow the early Black tribes in Zimbabwe through the Dutch colonisation of the Cape. Occupy the land with the English settlers and follow the early Afrikaaners during the Great Trek. Relive the Boer war from both sides of the English / Afrikaans fence, learn how the Afrikaaners gained power from the English and developed their Apartheid policies. Read how these policies affected the lives of people, black, white and brown. A soaring tale told with Michener's usual attention to detail and immaculate research.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, South africa, fiction, South Africa
