She also learns that Lord Asriel has been exiled, guarded by the bears on Svalbard. Lyra recruits Iorek Byrnison, an armored bear, and his human aeronaut friend, Lee Scoresby. The Gyptians form an expedition to the Arctic with Lyra to rescue the children. They reveal to Lyra that Asriel and Mrs Coulter are actually her parents. Lyra flees to the Gyptians, canal-faring nomads, whose children have also been abducted. Lyra discovers that Mrs Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, and that it is a project secretly funded by the Church. The Master secretly entrusts Lyra with an alethiometer, a truth-telling device. Lyra’s friend Roger is kidnapped by child abductors known as the “Gobblers.” Lyra is adopted by a charming socialite, Mrs Coulter. She warns Asriel, then spies on his lecture about Dust, mysterious elementary particles. In Jordan College, Oxford, 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon Pantalaimon witness the Master attempt to poison Lord Asriel, Lyra’s rebellious and adventuring uncle. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. Northern Lights pdf book is a fantasy novel in which a new universe has been created.
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