How long does it take to read Walkabout?
James Vance Marshall, Jim Alderson, Gillian Porter Ladousse
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall, Jim Alderson, Gillian Porter Ladousse takes about 2 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 15 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1959. 123 pages, about 33,825 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget...
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians, Fiction, Deserts, Fiction, general, Airplane crash survival, Children
