How long does it take to read Trade Wind?
M. M. Kaye, Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1908-2004, Matildah Arzi
Trade Wind by M. M. Kaye, Kaye, M. M. (Mary Margaret), 1908-2004, Matildah Arzi takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1964. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The scene is teeming Zanzibar just before the American Civil War, when the Isle of Cloves was a center of African slave trade. To it comes Hero Athena Hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds. Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him (and of her feelings for him)? "Tightly plotted, crammed with detail and irresistibly romantic." (Cosmopolitan) Note: M.M. Kaye is the author of The Far Pavilions, one of the great stories to emerge from British India.
Subjects: Fiction, Slave-trade, Slave trade, Fiction, historical, general, Zanzibar, fiction
