How long does it take to read The Wilder Shores of Love?
Lesley Blanch, Leslie branch gray
The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch, Leslie branch gray takes about 6 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 332 pages, about 91,300 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The four women who form the subject of this book belonged to the West ... Each found, in the East, glowing horizons of emotion and daring." Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent girl captured by corsairs and sold into the Harem of the Grand Turk; Lady Ellenborough, a society beauty who fled London for Athens, and Athens for the Syrian tent of Sheikh Medjuel El Bezrab; Isabel Burton, whose explorer husband's love for the East became her passion; and Isabelle Eberhardt, transvestite and linguist, whose love affair with the East ended when she drowned in the desert sand at the age of twenty-seven...
Subjects: Biography, Women, Women, europe, Women, biography, Women, africa, Women, history
