Northern Lights The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis

Name: Northern Lights The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis
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ISBN: 9780375708824

ISBN-10: 0375708820

ISBN-13: 9780375708824

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lucy Jago

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Combining popular science, biography, and arctic adventure in a book that reads lika a cross between Longitude, A Beautiful Mind, and Into Thin Air, Lucy Jago presents a riveting acount of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the visioinary who solved the mysteries of the aurora borealis. Here is the true story of an eccentric genius held captive by the allure of celestial splendor; of brushes with death on the remote snowcapped mountains of Norway and in the unforgiving, wartorn deserts of Africa; of the rival who cheated Birkeland of a Nobel Prize; and of the brilliant discoveries Birkeland made before his suspicious death in Japan in 1917. Meticulously researched…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/29/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.99" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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