Halfway between Cardiff and Oxford is Sharpness Docks, a small port town on the River Severn that was the filming location of many Gyptian scenes. Romans, nouvelles, etc.Be a Gyptian for a day on the Sharpness Canal © chrisatpps/Shutterstock
JUVENILE FICTION - Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Missing persons - Experiments - Juvenile fiction, Coulter are involved.īelacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) - Juvenile fiction, All around her children are disappearing-victims of so-called "Gobblers"-and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title.
In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe.
Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall.
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