How long does it take to read The Great Influenza?
John M. Barry, Amelia Pérez de Villlar
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, Amelia Pérez de Villlar takes about 11 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 620 pages, about 170,500 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, The Great Influenza is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
Subjects: Influenza, Medical, Nonfiction, Medicine, History, Epidemics
