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Once Upon a Time in the North (Audio)

By: Philip Pullman (Author)

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"Scoresby is in his element here, with a showdown and gunfight that would have been at home in any spaghetti Western if it hadn't been for Iorek."6

"Beautifully crafted and spilling over with action, the novel has the feel of an old western (one can almost see Gary Cooper as Lee)...Lawrence's stamp-sized ink engravings set the tale somewhere between fantasy and history."

Publisher's note

In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg. Simultaneous.

In this new prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving oil magnate Larsen Manganese, corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country: Pierre McConville, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name.

It's only after Lee forms an alliance with one of the island's reviled armored bears that he can fight to break up the conspiracy in a gun-twirling classic western shoot out--and battle of wits. This exquisite clothbound volume features the illustrations of John Lawrence, a removable board game--Peril of the Pole--on the inside back cover, and a glimpse for Pullman fans into the first friendship of two of the most beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.

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Fans of Philip Pullman’s bestselling fantasy trio, His Dark Materials, will devour this petite, well-bound story about the fraught first meeting of aeronaut Lee Scoresby and legendary polar bear, Iorek Byrnison. Crash landing in the harsh, icy north, Lee and his daemon, Hester, find themselves in the midst of a political showdown involving a crooked politician, supposedly menacing bears, and a drunken captain. Accompanied by gorgeous engravings and a special board game.

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