Book · by Michael Pollan · first published 2001
How many pages is The Botany of Desire?
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan has a median of 291 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 271 to 304 pages.
How long will The Botany of Desire take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 19 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Penguin Young Readers Group | – | 208 | OL40168495M |
| 2002 | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Paperback | 304 | OL7427599M |
| 2002 | Bloomsbury | – | 291 | OL19398798M |
| 2001 | Random House | – | 271 | OL23242221M |
| 2001 | Thorndike Press | Hardcover | 355 | OL9426305M |
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Questions
- How many pages is The Botany of Desire?
- About 291 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 208 to 355 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Botany of Desire?
- About 5 h 36 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
- How many words is The Botany of Desire?
- Roughly 80,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.
Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).