How long does it take to read The Ethiopian Borderlands?
The Ethiopian Borderlands by Richard Pankhurst takes about 8 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 489 pages, about 134,475 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is an historical investigative account of the history of the expanding and often nebulous borders of Ethiopia, beginning from ancient times to 1800. It deals with areas that have for years been contentious and problematic for the adjacent peoples in the region: Land of Bahr Nagash, Ifat, Adal, Fatagar, Dawaro, Bali, Damot, Gurage, Waj, Gamo, Ganz, Kafa, etc.
Subjects: History, Ethiopia, history, Oromo (African people), Imperialism--history, Afar (African people)
