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- Title
- The northern lights / Lucy Jago.
- Author
- Jago, Lucy
- Publication
- New York : Knopf, c2001.
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Text | Request in advance | QC805.B57 J34 2001 | Off-site |
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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