Editing His Dark Materials (section)

===''Once Upon a Time in the North''===
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This 2008 novella serves as a prequel to ''His Dark Materials'' and focuses on the Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby as a young man. After winning his hot-air balloon, Scoresby heads to the North, landing on the Arctic island Novy Odense, where he is pulled into a conflict between the oil tycoon Larsen Manganese, the corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and his longtime enemy from the Dakota Country, Pierre McConville. The story tells of Lee and Iorek's first meeting and of how they overcame these enemies.<ref name="Cittagazze">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cittagazze.com/livre/rencontre-pullman.php?version=en|title=Once upon a time... in Oxford|publisher=Cittàgazze|access-date=29 September 2007}}</ref>