How long does it take to read The Island of Adventure?
The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Adventure Series
Next: The Castle of Adventure
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1944. 208 pages, about 57,200 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot, the summer holidays in Cornwall are everything they'd hoped for. Until they begin to realize that something very sinister is taking place on the mysterious Isle of Gloom - where a dangerous adventure awaits them in the abandoned copper mines and secret tunnels beneath the sea.
Subjects: Children's stories, Islands, Juvenile fiction, Abandoned mines, Tunnels, Adventure and adventurers
