Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

Reading Level
Grade 11
Time to Read
7 hrs 7 mins

Reading Level

What is the reading level of Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest?

Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest is 10th and 11th grade.

Expert Readability Tests for
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

Readability Test Reading Level
Flesch Kincaid Scale Grade 10
SMOG Index Grade 12
Coleman Liau Index Grade 10
Dale Chall Readability Score Grade 8

Reading Time

7 hrs 7 mins

How long to read Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest?

The estimated word count of Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest is 106,640 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 7 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 51 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 57 mins.

Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest - 106,640 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 11 hrs 51 mins
Average 250 words/min 7 hrs 7 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 57 mins
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest by David Roberts
Authors
David Roberts

More about Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

106,640 words

Word Count

for Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

360 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 360 pages
Paperback: 368 pages

11 hours and 28 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition.In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey.In strict terms, the expedition failed. Running out of food and beset by an early winter, the twelve-man team gave up in what is now western Utah. The retreat to Santa Fe became an ordeal of survival. The men were reduced to eating their own horses while they searched for a crossing of the raging Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Seven months after setting out, Domínguez and Escalante staggered back to Santa Fe. Yet in the course of their 1,700-mile voyage, the explorers discovered more land unknown to Europeans than Lewis and Clark would encounter a quarter-century later.Other writers, using Escalante’s brilliant and quirky diary as a guide, have retraced the expedition route, but David Roberts is the first to dig beneath its pages to question and ponder every turn of the team’s decision-making and motivation. Roberts weaves the personal and the historical narratives into a gripping journey of discovery through the magnificent American Southwest. 1 map; 8 pages of photographs