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Within this brand-new prequel occurrence from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials world, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and potential buddy to Lyra Belacqua--is simply 24 yrs old, and he's recently gained his hot air balloon in a poker game. He sees herself flying North towards the wind-swept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are rapidly twisted in a lethal piece concerning gas tycoon Larsen Manganese, damaged mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and Lee's long-time enemy in the Dakota Nation: Pierre McConville, a hired killer with at-least twenty killings to his name.It's just after Lee forms an alliance with among the island's reviled armored bears that he may combat to split up the conspiracy in a gun-twirling traditional western shoot-out--and struggle of wits. This beautiful clothbound volume features the pictures of John Lawrence, a removable panel game—Peril of the Pole—on the interior back cover, and a peek for Pullman fans in to the first companionship of two of the very beloved figures in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison.