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is a prequel novella to His Dark Materials series, following sidecharacter and aeronaut, Lee Scoresby, on his adventures prior to those that occur during the central trilogy.


Lee pilots his hot air balloon to a secluded Arctic community and, upon looking for temporary employment there, discovers a dark figure from his past and becomes embroiled in darker political scheming instead.


Whilst it was unrelated to the main storyline in any other way than featuring some of the same characters, I found it both a fun and fascinating tale in its own right, with plenty of bloody action scenes and underhanded tactics taking place.


This beautiful, little hardback book also came with illustrations peppered throughout, some mock documents at the close of it, and even a fun little game for the reader to play upon completion.
I'm currently rereading Northern Lights, the first in the His Dark Materials trilogy, Not too long ago I also found out about the two companion books and this is the first.


This little clothbound beauty tells the story of Lee Scoresby, the hotair balloonist that helps Lyra in the first volume, and how he became friends the best of friends in fact with Iorek Byrnison, the panserbjørn.
It tells of old rivalries and a conspiracy that Lee has to fight and although we already know the ending to this story, it is very fastpaced and thrilling.


Making this little book even more special are the illustrations

as well as the board game that is included in a back pocket



Peronsally, I love it when an author has his whole world shaped and fleshed out, filled with loads of interesting places and characters and Philip Pullman proves here that his world is indeed very much alive and detailed.
. It seemed illogical not to read this small volume after having consumed everything related to His Dark Materials, and once again I was charmed.
These novellas from Pullman are so compelling, pulling you back into this huge and complex world, Add to this that Lee Scoresby and his daemon Hester have always been favourites of mine, and its a winner :O

The extra material at the end gives another layer to the story, connecting Lyra to this narrative and offering some details of her life since the events of the trilogy.
Lovely! I cannot wait to see what Pullman gives her in the second Book of Dust, See my review on my book blog: sitelink livejournal. com/ It's been ages since I reread His Dark Materials, so I don't have a clear image of Lee Scoresby in my head and I don't remember his, surprisingly kickass, daemon Hester at all.
I'm ashamed of this, she is an energetic, cussing delight,

I do remember being incredibly intrigued by Iorek and the whole idea of armored bears, and of course, I think we all wondered how on earth those two ended up as friends.
This story does it justice, I think,

It's very short, but it tells a fulfilling and engaging story, with a lot of really nice moments for the various characters.


To be honest, I think it's too short, Not because it rushes anything it's perfectly paced any rushing is Lee's fault for apparently being a firm believer in not doing tomorrow what you can do today, but because Lee is a proper adventurer, a good man and a ridiculous risk taker a worthy combination and I'd read countless books about his adventures if they existed, but alas.
I'm happy we got this much, A nice short story to remind about the prehistory of "His Dark Materials" B Satisfactory
Notes: Its supporting characters are undeveloped, the story is unremarkable, and it expects familiarity with previous books.
just incredible
the fantasy elements are a bit too much for me, though, Već dugo odlažem čitanje Pulmana i sada sam se konačno nakanio, Ova priča savršena je da se stekne utisak kakav je Pulman pisac,
Zaključak je odličan!
Nakon ovoga odmah sam prešao na prvi deo trilogije Njegova mračna tkanja.

Pulman je vešt pripovedač kod kojeg nema razvlačenja, oklevanja, tapkanja u mestu, bespotrebnih opisa ukratko, svega onoga što prečesto kao kuga mori savremenu fantastiku.

Ovo je ujedno i svojevrsan prikvel opisuje epizodu u životu Lija Skorsbija nedugo nakon što je postao aeronaut.
A tekstaško poreklo obećava i kaubojski zaplet, ali na dalekom severu i tom prilikom Li je upoznao Joreka.

A nice arctic Western, I'm totally down with authors of popular series publishing little related books like this, when they're such good stories.
I really enjoyed this little prequel! I havent read the main books yet theyre next but I have seen both the movie and the t.
v. show, so I had all the info I needed not to be completely lost, . . and it was really cool seeing some major characters meet for the first time,

I wouldnt recommend starting with this one if you have no prior knowledge of this world, though youd be wondering what the heck all this dæmon business was, for a start, as theres no explanation here.
. . "Nice piece of oratorical flamboyancy, " Hester

This book was a gift, I love the size and shape of it, its compactness, the cloth cover, the way it fits so perfectly with its companion book, Lyra's Oxford, which I perversely keep with my guidebooks rather than my other Pullman novels.


I am almost certain I would have liked the actual text better had I not been consumed with jealousy over the presentation.
The story is less thansmall pages long, directed at no obviously definable reader of any age, and is surely nonsensical in places to anyone who doesn't know His Dark Materials.
For all the story's artistry it would not be considered publishable if it hadn't been written by, well, Philip Pullman.
Yet because it is Pullman's, it is illustrated with beautiful woodcuts and appended with faked photographs of newspaper clippings, letters and an actual board game folded in a paper envelope in the back.
I know that this beautiful little book was expensive to put together,

Lucky book. I am jealous.

It is mean and childish of me, And reduces my own pleasure in the reading, which should be greatI adore Pullman and this world of his.
In spite of my jealousy, I want about five more of these beautiful little books with their discrete tales from the world of His Dark Materials so I can stack them up with the rest of my guidebooks.
I have finally

been catching up on the novellas and other short stories associated with His Dark Materials.
This story chronicles when two very popular characters meet for the first time, Lee has come to a desolate Island hoping to get some fuel and an easy job, Things go bad pretty quickly as Lee is unable to resist getting into trouble by doing what's right.


Very nice adventure and the voice cast is stellar!,