![]() ![]() The rescue becomes a long flight-part idyll, part nightmare-that ultimately leaves the burbling babe and her daemon, Pantalaimon, ensconced in Jordan College. The terrifying hazards they encounter are natural, unnatural, and even supernatural. ![]() He bundles the laughing infant into his canoe (named La Belle Sauvage) along with teenage acquaintance Alice Parslow. Then, impelled by a devastating flood and the attentions of a sinister stranger with a horribly wounded, abused hyena for a daemon, 11-year-old Malcolm Pollstead undertakes a desperate rescue. ![]() Alexander” (after an early convert who consigned his pagan parents to the flames-it’s clear the author continues to wield his anything-but-subtle knife on organized Christianity). It’s a story in two parts, as the author devotes nearly the entire first half to a slow buildup of tension around a certain baby recently consigned to the indulgent sisters of a nearby priory, to setting the cast in place, and to the founding of a network of student informants dubbed the “League of St. Pullman’s return to the realms of His Dark Materials moves the timeline back to Lyra’s infancy with a tale of young people struggling against outsized forces of both nature and evil. ![]()
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