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Just over one hundred years ago Kristian Birkeland looked into the night sky of his native Norway and saw in the beautiful Northern Lights a mystery waiting to be solved. Determined to prove to the world his bold theory about the heavens above, this misunderstood genius began a quest that would take him from Norway's ice mountains to the deserts of Africa, and across a continent ravaged by war. It was a quest that alienated friends and family, ruined his health and sanity, and ended in his mysterious death in a Japanese hotel in 1917. Lucy Jago brilliantly tells the fascinating and tragic story of Kristian Birkeland, the man who saw in the night sky a secret that no one else could see, but who died trying to convince the world of his vision.
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The northern lights, Lucy Jago
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2002
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- Título
- The northern lights
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Lucy Jago
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Publicado en
- 2002
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 014029015x
- ISBN13
- 9780140290158
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Ciencia y Matemáticas, Naturaleza, Autobiografías y memorias, Ciencia, Espacio, Astronomía
- Calificación
- 4,1 de 5
- Descripción
- Just over one hundred years ago Kristian Birkeland looked into the night sky of his native Norway and saw in the beautiful Northern Lights a mystery waiting to be solved. Determined to prove to the world his bold theory about the heavens above, this misunderstood genius began a quest that would take him from Norway's ice mountains to the deserts of Africa, and across a continent ravaged by war. It was a quest that alienated friends and family, ruined his health and sanity, and ended in his mysterious death in a Japanese hotel in 1917. Lucy Jago brilliantly tells the fascinating and tragic story of Kristian Birkeland, the man who saw in the night sky a secret that no one else could see, but who died trying to convince the world of his vision.