Meer over het boek
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.
Een boek kopen
The northern lights, Lucy Jago
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Betaalmethoden
We missen je recensie hier.
- Titel
- The northern lights
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Lucy Jago
- Uitgever
- Penguin
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- Formaat
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 014029015x
- ISBN13
- 9780140290158
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Historisch thema, Geschiedenis, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Wetenschap en Wiskunde, Natuur, Autobiografie en memoires, Wetenschap, Ruimte, Astronomie
- Beoordeling
- 4,1 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.