How long does it take to read The Island of Sheep?
The Island of Sheep by John Buchan takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Richard Hannay
Previous: The Courts of the Morning
About 4 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1920. 251 pages, about 69,025 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 199 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Richard Hannay is now in his fifties but once more must throw himself into an adventure to uphold a an oath he made in his youth to protect the son of a man he once knew, the son being an heir to the secret of a great treasure.
Subjects: Fiction, Richard Hannay (Fictitious character), Scotland, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Islands, Adventure and adventurers
