How long does it take to read The Pathfinder?
or, The inland sea
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper takes about 9 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Leatherstocking Tales
Previous: The Last of the Mohicans Next: The Pioneers
About 9 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1800. 498 pages, about 136,950 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 427 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders, and defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical fiction, History, Indians of North America, Natty Bumppo (Fictitious character)
