TY - SOUND AU - Pullman,Philip TI - Once Upon a Time in the North T2 - His Dark Materials SN - 9780739366981 U1 - F PUL PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Listening Library KW - Balloonists KW - Fiction KW - Polar bears KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Fantasy / General KW - Audiobooks N1 - Unabridged; Prequel to: The golden compass; Read by the author and a full cast; Ages 10-17 N2 - 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 ER -