Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid audiobook runs 10.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Vance (about 7.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 22 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 10.8 hours, it runs longer than 72% of the 2,099 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog.
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Simon Vance narrates 334 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,407 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Essays & Anthologies shelf
241 Essays & Anthologies audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid is an audiobook by J. Maarten Troost: a 10.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Vance, released July 8, 2008, on the Essays & Anthologies and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Vance
- Released
- July 8, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Essays & Anthologies, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781483051536
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid audiobook?
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid runs 10.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.2 hours.
Is the Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid audiobook free?
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Who narrates Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid?
Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid is narrated by Simon Vance.
Is Lost on Planet China: The Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.2 hours, saving 3.6 hours.