How long does it take to read The Sixth Extinction?
An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert, Marcel Blanc
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, Marcel Blanc takes about 6 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 360 pages, about 99,000 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
Subjects: Extinction (Biology), Mass extinctions, Environmental disasters, SCIENCE / Environmental Science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Massenaussterben
