Once upon a time in the North
By: by Philip Pullman ; engravings by John Lawrence.
Contributors: Lawrence, John, 1933- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780375845109
Description: 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.

Fantasy.
Notes: "A David Fickling book."

Prequel to: The golden compass.