About This Book
In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told he...
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Reading Time Estimates
11h 12m
slow reader
180 WPM
8h 4m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 46m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 121,000 wordsπ
17 days at 30 min/day
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8 h 4 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
8 h 58 min
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13 h 27 min
Audio 2x
6 h 43 min
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- π 17 daysΒ reading 30 min/day
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