Northern lights
By: Philip Pullman
Series: His dark materials; His dark materials
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780439994927
Subjects: Kidnapping; Juvenile fiction; Missing persons; Orphans; Uncles
Description: "This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. Lyra's life is already sufficiently interesting for a novel before she eavesdrops on a presentation by her uncle Lord Asriel to his colleagues in the Jordan College faculty, Oxford. The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant. Set in an England familiar and strange, Philip Pullman's lively, taut story is a must-read and re-read for fantasy lovers of all ages." -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Originally published: 1995.