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Firsttime author lucy jago now resurrects this intrepid, visionary, and obsessively hardworking genius in a compulsively readable tale of courage, conviction, and betrayal. Northern lights titled the golden compass in north america and some other countries is a youngadult fantasy novel by philip pullman, published in 1995 by scholastic uk. Northern lights, a 2001 translation of severni sij, a 1984 slovene novel by drago jancar. The true story of the man who unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis by lucy jago.
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The northern lights, a 2002 biography of kristian birkeland by lucy jago. The aweinspiring aurora borealis was, appropriately, first explained by a norwegian scientist. His novel in the lake of the woods received the james. The northern lights by lucy jago book cover, description, publication history. The northern lights, a 1991 novel by howard norman. The northern lights by lucy jago books the guardian. Now lucy jago tells the story of the scienceand the romancebehind the northern lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary norwegian scientist kristian birkeland. Shot with ultrahigh definition cameras, this book of amazing photographs showcases a period of unusually high solar activity in the northern lights. Lucy jago is an awardwinning writer of fiction and nonfiction.
His other works include the pulitzer finalist and a new york times book of the century, the things they carried. At the age of thirtyone, birkeland set out on a lifelong, increasingly compulsive quest to discover the origins of the aurora borealis. The northern lights the true story of the man who unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis by lucy jago. Northern lights novel, a 1995 novel by philip pullman. 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. We are so familiar with the idea of the aurora borealis, and its southern counterpart the aurora australis, being a manifestation of the suns electromagnetic influence on the earth, that it is sometimes easy to imagine that this understanding is as old as newtons. Just as fascinating are the legends, myths, and science surrounding this polar phenomenon, described by george bryson. Lucy jago is a former documentary producer for channel 4 and the bbc. Lucy jago explores how norwegian scientist kristian birkeland discovered the origins of the northern lights.
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