Northern Lights

Name: Northern Lights
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ISBN: 9780375409806

ISBN-10: 0375409807

ISBN-13: 9780375409806

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lucy Jago

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Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or souls of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland. At the age of thirty-one, Birkeland set out on a lifelong, increasingly compulsive quest to discover the origins of the aurora borealis. He traveled across some of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth, from the ice mountains of Norway to the deserts of Africa, against a backdrop of war and…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

She is a journalist & former documentary producer. She lives in London.



List of Illustrations


Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Aurora Borealis


Odin's Messengers


Land of the Lapps


The Castle


A Warning


"Riddle Solved!"


The Cannon


Mad Dogs


The Terrella


Explosion!


The Furnace


Ida


Looking Back from Space


The Divine Option


Vast, Infinite Space


Zodiacal Light


The Dusty Disc


War


Letters from Home


Brittle Remains


Epilogue


Select Bibliography


Index