How long does it take to read The Rustle Of Bamboo?
The Rustle Of Bamboo by Celine Conway takes about 3 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 190 pages, about 52,250 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here is a hospital story with a difference, for it is set on an island near the Burma coast where a white doctor and two nurses, with a native staff and few facilities, waged a never-ending war against tropical diseases, parasites and an utterly exhausting climate. Pat, recently out from England, and not very experienced, would have found it hard going in any case; but it was made much tougher by the fact that Dr. Mark Bradlaw seemed to find her intensely irritating, and even sometimes carried his disapproval to the point of reprimanding her in front of the patients. And as if that was not enough to bear, the beautiful widow with whom his name had been linked turned up in Pengola and began to throw her weight about in a ladylike but thoroughly determined way.
Subjects: Fiction, romance
