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Title

The northern lights / Lucy Jago.

Author

Jago, Lucy

Publication

New York : Knopf, c2001.

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Description

xv, 297 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

Explores how Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland discovered the origins of the Northern Lights.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-288) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0375409807 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001029895

OCLC

47045127

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library