La Belle Sauvage: (Book of Dust, Volume 1)
by Pullman, Philip
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- ISBN 13
- 9780385604413
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London: Penguin Random House, 2017 9780385604413. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete number line. Fine/Fine. DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions. 560 pages. 240mmItem Width162mmWeight866gHeight 240mm Width 162mm. Spine 46mm. Weight 866g. Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames (which Malcolm navigates often using his beloved canoe, a boat by the name of La Belle Sauvage) is the Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a guest with them; a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua. Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford. Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right. Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust. The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself, to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers. . .
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- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
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- Title
- La Belle Sauvage: (Book of Dust, Volume 1)
- Author
- Pullman, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385604416
- ISBN 13
- 9780385604413
- Publisher
- London: Penguin Random House, 2017 9780385604413
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Oxford River Thames Godstone Priory Trout Inn Daemons Canoe QSE
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