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Book Review: North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest To Solve The Great Mystery Of Earth’S Magnetism By Gillian Turner, Elizabeth B. Lewis

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Gillian Turner’s first book, North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism, provides a thorough, historical accounting of scientific discovery of the earth’s magnetism, magnetic field, and its resulting effects. Turner is a senior lecturer in physics and geophysics at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and her writing possesses the voice of both a teacher and storyteller. She meticulously traces the history of our scientific understanding of magnetism, the scientists who were intrigued by the phenomena, and the innumerable research efforts to solve the puzzle of earth’s magnetism and its effects …