How long does it take to read The Yellow Admiral?
The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O'Brian takes about 4 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 18 of Aubrey-Maturin series
Previous: The Commodore Next: The Hundred Days
About 4 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 265 pages, about 72,875 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All twenty books are being re-issued by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Sea stories, Ship captains, History, Naval
