Northern Lights A Practical Travel Guide
Northern Lights: A Practical Travel Guide by Polly Evans is a thoroughly updated fourth edition published by Bradt/Sawday/Wh on May 1, 2023. This guide provides practical advice for those seeking to witness the aurora borealis, detailing the best viewing locations across North America, Greenland, and Europe. It covers a range of accommodation options, from budget hotels to unique stays like Sweden’s ICEHOTEL, and offers insights into the increasing popularity of winter tourism in northern regions.
Readers will find comprehensive information on the science behind the northern lights, along with tips for photographing the phenomenon and practical advice on winter travel. The guide also includes suggestions for daytime activities such as dog sledding and skiing, as well as historical perspectives on early explorers’ encounters with the lights and the myths of indigenous peoples. With 112 pages of detailed content, this edition serves as a valuable resource for both newcomers and seasoned travelers interested in experiencing one of nature’s most spectacular displays.
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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.
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