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.
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