How long does it take to read Young Men & Fire?
Young Men & Fire by Norman Maclean takes about 6 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours
A weekend read
First published 1992. 327 pages, about 89,925 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.--Amazon.
Subjects: United States. Forest Service, Smokejumpers, Officials and employees, United States, Prevention and control, Forest fires
