How long does it take to read The Encyclopedia of Country Living?
an old fashioned recipe book
Carla Emery
The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery takes about 13 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 743 pages, about 204,325 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia — the most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden, orchard, field, or barnyard. For more than 30 years, people have relied on its practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. First written at the height of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement, the book has been continually revised, updated, and expanded, and has grown from a self-published, mimeographed document to an exhaustive reference of more than one million words, 2,000+ recipes, and over 1,500 mail order sources. Emery’s personal advice, reflections, and anecdotes ensure that this incredibly detailed, diverse reference is as enjoyable as it is useful.
Subjects: Home economics, homesteading, recipes, Handbooks, manuals, how-to books, Agriculture
