It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Captain Gill’s Walking Stick by Saul Kelly
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor Edward Palmer of Cambridge University and a young naval lieutenant, Harold Charrington, were killed in an ambush by Bedouin in the Sinai Desert in 1883. The trio had been tasked with informal diplomacy in the region, specifically to prevent the Arab sheikhs from joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their non-interference with the Suez...
Captain Gill’s Walking Stick by Saul Kelly is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.
This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Captain Gill’s Walking Stick aloud.
Captain Gill’s Walking Stick is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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