# Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart has 99,379 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Lucien Biart](https://musael.com/books/authors/lucien-biart.md) (1828–1897)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 99,379
- **Reading time:** 6 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 10 h 41 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 8 h 17 min | 17 days |
| 250 wpm | 6 h 38 min | 14 days |
| 300 wpm | 5 h 31 min | 12 days |

## Read or listen

Adventures of a Young Naturalist is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26009

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 99,379
- Chapters: 37
- Dialogue: 28% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 18.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26009 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10692082W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26009

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/adventures-of-a-young-naturalist