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Front matter covers publication credits, copyright and publishing information, educator resources, and edition notices supporting lawful reading. The narrative excerpt follows Lyra Silvertongue and her dæmon Pantalaimon as she seeks answers after their reunion, during northern expeditions focused on recovering lands affected by Bolvangar’s curse, Arctic climate devastation, and an archaeological dig among Proto-Fisher settlements.","Selected Works by Philip Pullman  \nTHE BOOK OF DUST  \nLaBelle Sauvage The Secret Commonwealth  \nHIS DARK MATERIALS  \nThe Golden Compass The Subtle Knife The Amber Spyglass  \nHIS DARK MATERIALS COMPANION BOOKS  \nLyra’s Oxford Once Upon a Time in the North The Collectors  \nThe Golden Compass Graphic Novel  \nNONFICTION  \nDæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling  \nTHIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.  \nText copyright © 2020 by Philip Pullman  \nCover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2020 by Tom Duxbury  \nAll rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Simultaneously published in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK in 2020.  \nKnopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random  \nHouse LLC.  \nVisit us on the Web! [rhcbooks.com](rhcbooks.com)  \nEducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at  \n[RHTeachersLibrarians.com](RHTeachersLibrarians.com)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. 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You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to publish books for every reader.  \na_prh_5.6.0_c0_r0  \nContents  \nCover  \nSelected Works by Philip Pullman  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nHis Dark Materials: Serpentine  \nA Note from the Author  \nAbout the Author  \nAbout the Illustrator  \nver since Lyra Silvertongue and her dæmon,  \nhEad been reunited, following their terrible parting on  \nPantalaimon, the shores of  \nthe world of the dead, Lyra had wanted to ask him about the time he’d spent away from her. But she had the obscure sense that she shouldn’t ask him directly; he would tell her when he wanted to. However, time went past, and still he didn’t, and it began to trouble her.  \nThis feeling came to a head during a visit she paid to the northern lands, a year after the witch Yelena Pazhets had nearly killed her in Oxford: the time when Lyra had been saved by the birds.  \nThe curse of Bolvangar had been lifted, but the northern lands had still not recovered from the climatic devastation Lord Asriel had caused. However, the retreat of the snows and the loosening of the permafrost meant that all kinds of archaeological work was possible, and Jordan College sponsored a dig in the region of Trollesund to investigate some recently discovered settlements of the Proto-Fisher people.  \nNaturally, Lyra demanded to go too; but they made her work. So she slept in a tent and spent days sifting through the squalid rubbish in a mud-filled midden, while Pantalaimon snapped at mosquitoes; and as soon as the chance came, she begged a ride on the weekly supply-run into the town. She wanted to look at the places she remembered: the sledge depot where she’d bargained with Iorek Byrnison, the dockside where she’d met Lee Scoresby, and the house of the witch consul Dr. Lanselius.","cbCaihXIRrtzttiq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihXIRrtzttiq","pdf",6390606,3,98,"English","en",105,"# Selected Works by Philip Pullman\n## The Book of Dust\n## His Dark Materials\n## His Dark Materials Companion Books\n## Nonfiction","[{\"question\":\"What conditions and activities shape the northern storyline?\",\"answer\":\"The curse of Bolvangar has been lifted, but the region still suffers from climatic damage; retreating snows and permafrost loosening enable archaeological work tied to Proto-Fisher settlements.\"}]",1783376183,151,{"code":4,"msg":30,"data":31},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":32,"title":13,"keywords":33,"description":14,"schema_data":34,"social_meta":77,"head_meta":79,"extra_data":81,"updated_unix":27},"his-dark-materials-serpentine-philip-pullman","",{"@graph":35,"@context":76},[36,52,67],{"@type":37,"itemListElement":38},"BreadcrumbList",[39,43,47,49],{"item":40,"name":41,"@type":42,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":44,"name":45,"@type":42,"position":46},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":48,"name":12,"@type":42,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":42,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/his-dark-materials-serpentine-philip-pullman/43026/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":40,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-14","2026-07-06",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"What conditions and activities shape the northern storyline?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"The curse of Bolvangar has been lifted, but the region still suffers from climatic damage; retreating snows and permafrost loosening enable archaeological work tied to Proto-Fisher settlements.","Answer","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":78,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":80,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":83},[84,87,91,95,100,105,110,115,120,123,127],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":85,"slug":86},90,"story-novel",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":88,"show_sort_weight":89,"slug":90},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":96,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":97,"show_sort_weight":98,"slug":99},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":101,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":102,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":104},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":106,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":107,"show_sort_weight":108,"slug":109},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":111,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":117,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":119},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":118,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":121,"show_sort_weight":118,"slug":122},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":124,"slug":126},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":128,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":130},19,"General","general"]