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Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials, Bk 0.5) (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Once Upon a Time in the North - His Dark Materials, Bk 0.5 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Philip Pullman, Nigel Whitmey (Narrator), Sean Barrett (Narrator) 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 H... more »ester 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.
Read by Philip Pullman, Nigel Whitmey and Sean Barrett. Audio CDs (2 hours and 16 minutes)« less