01228cam a2200265 4500 121319568 TxAuBib 20080624120000.0 071129s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007043993 9780375845109 hardcover 0375845100 hardcover DLC DLC IG# BTCTA BAKER YDXCP LIQ GZD TxAuBib Pullman, Philip, 1946- Once upon a time in the North [HC] / Philip Pullman ; engravings by John Lawrence. 1st American ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 95 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. Includes a board game 'Peril of the pole' in envelope attached to back cover. "A David Fickling book.". 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. 20080624. Fantasy. Lawrence, John, 1933-, ill.