Wilderness Empire (Winning of America)
Published 2001 · 653 pages · 179,575 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · History, Nonfiction
How hard is Wilderness Empire (Winning of America) to read?
Wilderness Empire (Winning of America) scores 28 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 38 out of 100
- Narrative popular history aimed at general readers, so the language is clear with some period and military terms. It is closer to accessible nonfiction than to literary prose.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- A narrative history of this kind typically uses straightforward storytelling sentences. Length alone does not make the syntax demanding.
- Abstraction: 35 out of 100
- The book follows concrete events, alliances and wars between France, England and the Iroquois League. Ideas are carried by incident rather than theory, in the manner of Atomic Habits' concrete examples but on a historical canvas.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- At about 180,000 words covering a multi-power colonial war, it carries many names, places and campaigns. Narrative framing keeps the pace manageable.
How Wilderness Empire (Winning of America) is regarded
Wilderness Empire (Winning of America) holds a literary regard score of 32 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.