How long does it take to read When the Lion Feeds?
When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith takes about 10 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Courtney Novels series
Next: The Sound of Thunder
About 10 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1964. 572 pages, about 157,300 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The book is all about the Courtney family based in South Africa, before the boa war.
Subjects: Courtney family (Fictitious characters), Fiction, Gold mines and mining, South africa, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure
