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Northern Lights Travel Guide. Holiday and travel advice about where and when to see the aurora borealis, covering Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Alaska. Also includes: accommodation options; tour operators offering packages; what to wear; how to travel; aurora photography, forecasting and science; and daytime activities.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Written by Arctic expert Polly Evans, this new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Northern Lights: a Practical Travel Guide does what it says on the tin, providing practical guidance to the best places to view the natural phenomenon also known as the aurora borealis. Designed for the many people who dream of witnessing this spectacle, it remains the only guidebook to provide detailed treatment of optimum locations across North America (Canada, Alaska), Greenland and Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) while also covering practicalities, with this edition providing greater detail on a wider range of accommodation options, from budget hotels to Sweden's spectacular ICEHOTEL, built each year from river water before melting in spring. The northern lights - arguably the greatest light show you'll ever see - are a major, increasingly popular tourist draw of the Arctic and sub-Arctic winter. The experience is also increasingly popular: in the decade to 2016, winter tourism to northern Norway increased by 378%. As well as advice on the best places to see auroras, this guide offers a succinct, easy-to-understand explanation of the science behind the northern lights, and provides information on tour operators offering northern lights packages, up-to-date guidance on photographing the aurora in the light of technological improvements, alongside practical tips including what to wear, how to drive in winter conditions and how to understand northern lights forecasting. The guide is further enriched by suggestions for complementary daytime activities such as dog sledging, skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling and wildlife safaris; an examination of the reactions of the early explorers to their first sightings of this phenomenon; and insights into the myths and legends of the northern indigenous peoples. There is even advice on how and where to get married in ice chapels! Whether the northern lights are still on your bucket list or you are an experienced aurora aficionado, Bradt's comprehensive guide to the Northern Lights remains the essential companion to planning and getting the most out of any trip to watch one of the world's most remarkable events. AUTHOR: When not teaching Spanish at an English public school, Polly Evans is an award-winning travel journalist and author. She has written five travel narrative books: It's Not About the Tapas (shortlisted for the W.H. Smith People's Choice Travel Book Award, and Daily Express Book of the Week), Kiwis Might Fly, Fried Eggs with Chopsticks, On a Hoof and a Prayer, and Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman. Polly also writes travel guides, specifically Bradt's guides to the Yukon (winner of the British Guild of Travel Writers' award for Best Guidebook), and Northern Lights. She has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Wanderlust, Condé Nast Traveller, BBC Wildlife and Food & Wine, while her radio documentary for the BBC World Service, The Other Guantánamo, won the British Guild of Travel Writers' Best Travel Broadcast award.

Author Biography

Polly Evans is an award-winning travel journalist and author, specialising in the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Her books comprise two Bradt guides (Yukon and Northern Lights) plus five travel narratives. She first saw the northern lights when living in a dog kennels with 108 huskies, researching her book on learning to drive sled dogs. On that trip she fell in love with the far north, returning many times to write about northern Canada, Alaska, Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia. She has seen the northern lights many times, whether as pale-green wisps across the horizon or all-out extravaganzas of green and magenta covering the sky. It's not just the aurora that draws Evans to the far north, though. She loves the wilderness, the diverse accommodation (from backcountry lodges where grizzly bears come knocking to glass-constructed igloo pods), and the brilliant quirkiness of people choosing these remote parts of the world as home.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 What are the Northern Lights?Magnetic versus geographic poles, The auroral ovals, The sunspot cycle, The different shapes of northern lightsChapter 2 Where to See the Northern LightsSweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, Alaska, The southern lightsChapter 3 Practical InformationTour operators, What to wear, Temperatures, Winter driving, How to photograph the northern lights, Northern lights forecastingChapter 4 Beyond the Northern LightsSomething for the daytime, And if you have time to sleep. Extra 1,000 to 1,500 words of text to be added in accommodation for some new listings.Chapter 5 The Northern Lights in HistoryExplorers and the aurora, Kristian Birkeland, Great Auroras in historyAppendices Further information: books, TV, Websites

Review

'Bradt has published the first-ever Northern Lights travel guide, which answers those how, what, where and when questions posed by travellers in search of the dazzling atmospheric phenomenon.'-- "TNT Magazine"'Northern Lights gives some good advice on the best countries and destinations from which to view the aurora borealis and there are good tips on what you should wear.'-- "Sky at Night"'Northern Lights is a handy practical guide.'-- "Daily Telegraph"

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Key Sales Points.Remains the only guidebook to provide detailed treatment of optimum locations for watching the northern lights across Europe and North America (covering Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and Alaska).Smaller and fatter than previous editions of the guide, so easily discoverable on shelves, with a wealth of extra photography.Contains advice on accommodation, photography, science, tour operators and northern lights' forecasting.Increasingly popular experience: winter tourism to northern Norway increased by 378% (2006-16).Written by an award-winning journalist, author and Arctic expertAbout Bradt Travel Guides.Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print.Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards.Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations.

Long Description

Written by Arctic expert Polly Evans, this new, thoroughly updated fourth edition of Bradt's Northern Lights: a Practical Travel Guide does what it says on the tin, providing practical guidance to the best places to view the natural phenomenon also known as the aurora borealis. Designed for the many people who dream of witnessing this spectacle, it remains the only guidebook to provide detailed treatment of optimum locations across North America (Canada, Alaska), Greenland and Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland) while also covering practicalities, with this edition providing greater detail on a wider range of accommodation options, from budget hotels to Sweden's spectacular ICEHOTEL, built each year from river water before melting in spring. The northern lights - arguably the greatest light show you'll ever see - are a major, increasingly popular tourist draw of the Arctic and sub-Arctic winter. The experience is also increasingly popular: in the decade to 2016, winter tourism to northern Norway increased by 378%. As well as advice on the best places to see auroras, this guide offers a succinct, easy-to-understand explanation of the science behind the northern lights, and provides information on tour operators offering northern lights packages, up-to-date guidance on photographing the aurora in the light of technological improvements, alongside practical tips including what to wear, how to drive in winter conditions and how to understand northern lights forecasting. The guide is further enriched by suggestions for complementary daytime activities such as dog sledging, skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling and wildlife safaris; an examination of the reactions of the early explorers to their first sightings of this phenomenon; and insights into the myths and legends of the northern indigenous peoples. There is even advice on how and where to get married in ice chapels! Whether the northern lights are still on your bucket list or you are an experienced aurora aficionado, Bradt's comprehensive guide to the Northern Lights remains the essential companion to planning and getting the most out of any trip to watch one of the world's most remarkable events.

Review Quote

'Northern Lights is a handy practical guide.'

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Key Sales Points. Remains the only guidebook to provide detailed treatment of optimum locations for watching the northern lights across Europe and North America (covering Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and Alaska). Smaller and fatter than previous editions of the guide, so easily discoverable on shelves, with a wealth of extra photography. Contains advice on accommodation, photography, science, tour operators and northern lights' forecasting. Increasingly popular experience: winter tourism to northern Norway increased by 378% (2006-16). Written by an award-winning journalist, author and Arctic expertAbout Bradt Travel Guides. Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print. Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards . Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations.

Details ISBN1804690597 Author Polly Evans Short Title Northern Lights Publisher Bradt Travel Guides Language English Year 2023 Edition 4th ISBN-10 1804690597 ISBN-13 9781804690598 Format Paperback DEWEY 538.768 Imprint Bradt Travel Guides Illustrations 3 Maps US Release Date 2023-05-01 Series Bradt Travel Guides Place of Publication Buckinghamshire Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 96 Publication Date 2023-03-15 AU Release Date 2023-03-15 NZ Release Date 2023-03-15 UK Release Date 2023-03-15 Edition Description 4th Revised edition Alternative 9781804691564 Audience General Subtitle A practical travel guide We've got this

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