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	His Dark Materials .org - Lyra's Oxford - Harry Potter Syndrome?
		Lyra's Oxford will come along with a detailed coloured map of the city and the grounds of Jordan College, wood block illustrations and a Postcard.
		The short story entitled Lyra and the Birds (whereas Lyra's Oxford is the name of the volume) will be independent from the trilogy and can be read separately as the publishers assured.
		Konrad wrote an article about his first impression of Lyra's Oxford.
	www.hisdarkmaterials.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=20

	The Golden Compass
		The story begins at Jordan College in Oxford, where young Lyra Belacqua and her daemon, Pantalaimon, are being reared and educated by the Scholars.
		The college, famed for its leadership in experimental theology, is funding Lord Asriel's research into the heretical possibility of the existence of worlds unlike Lyra's own, where everyone is born with a familiar animal companion, magic of a kind works, the Tartars are threatening to overrun Muscovy, and the Pope is a puritanical Protestant.
		The Master of Jordan College has secretly given Lyra a rare and unusual instrument, the alethiometer, which looks like a compass and can be used to answer questions of every sort, even about the future.
	www.students.sonoma.edu /clubs/azo/PPullman.htm

	Sequential Tart - The Report Card
		Lyra's Oxford is constructed to look and feel as if it were an artifact blown in from a parallel universe, a universe which invites a revisit or two.
		Lyra's Oxford is a delightful, freestanding appendix to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass), set in a universe where the multiple worlds theory is a reality.
		Packaged in a small, hardcover format that must resemble the notoriously unreliable Baedecker travel guides of Lyra's universe, Lyra's Oxford contains a handsome fold-out map of the alternate-world version of Oxford, woodcut illustrations by John Lawrence and "souvenirs" from the past.
	www.sequentialtart.com /reports.php?ID=2805&issue=2005-05-01 (385 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lyra's Oxford: Books
		Thankfully, Lyra's Oxford shows that is not the case, and far from being just a tacked-on addition to that series, it's a full story in it's own right and also possibly a tantalising teaser for The Book of Dust, whenever it finally arrives.
		The story, "Lyra and the Birds", begins when Lyra and Pantalaimon spot a witch's daemon called Ragi being pursued over the rooftops of Oxford by a frenzied pack of birds.
		Together Lyra and Pan try to guide the daemon to the home of this man, but it is a journey fraught with more danger than they had at first anticipated.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385606990 (1131 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Northern Lights
		In this world lives Lyra, a girl left to be raised amongst the staff and scholars of Jordan College in Oxford, a sprawling mass of gothic buildings, great halls, subterranean passages and secret crypts.
		It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own - nor is her world.
		In Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0590660543 (1131 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Lyra's Oxford
		At the same time, however, the delightfully ambiguous foreword and the lovely extras (a postcard from Mary Malone, a map of Lyra's Oxford and a leaflet detailing a cruise to the Lavant) have the usual Pullman attention to detail.
		That is all Lyra's Oxford is, really: a taster for Pullman's next forage into the world (or rather 'worlds' - Ha!) of His Dark Materials.
		The daemon is seeking one Sebastian Makepeace--an alchemist living in a part of Oxford known as Jericho.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385606990/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/026-7521316-1417252 (1131 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
		The Golden Compass opens as Lyra Belacqua, a young girl, and Pantalaimon, her daemon, attempt to spy on the house Master in Jordan College, a school at Oxford University.
		Before Lyra leaves Oxford, the Master pulls her aside and gives her something called an alethiometer, which looks like a golden compass but has very different markings on the inside.
		But in the dungeon, Lyra remembers that at Jordan College she heard that Iofur Raknison is desirous of a daemon.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section1.html (1131 words)

	Expert About ly:Lyra
		Lyra's Oxford is the SHORT sequel to Philip Pullman's rather excellent trilogy, His Dark Materials, but lacking the element of adventure and wonder this set of books offered, Lyra's Oxford isn't the book I was hoping to read.
		Lyra is the lyre played by Orpheus, musician of the Argonauts and son of Apollo and the muse Calliope.
		Lyra Halprin is working to promote the collaborative work among farmers, researchers and farm advisors that occur in numerous SAREP grant projects.
	www.expertsite.biz /dir/ly/Lyra.htm (1638 words)

	Golden Compass
		Lyra Belacqua is a young, not much more than 11, supposedly orphaned girl, of royal birth, left by Lord Asriel, her Uncle, to be raised by the Scholars, Administration and staff of the prominent and majestic Jordan College in Oxford, England.
		She runs the buildings, the streets, the alleys, the basements, the catacombs and the rooftops of Oxford and the College with kids of all manner of class, changing allegiance as necessary for the game of the day.
		The adventure develops through Lyra’s quest to save her friend Roger, who was kidnapped by the Gobblers, before whatever happens to the children at the facility in the north run by the General Oblation Board, happens to him.
	faculty.ssu.edu /~elbond/compass.htm (1638 words)

	Travel for Kids: Oxford, England
		Lyra's world "joins on" with twelve-year-old Will's Oxford, as together they embark on an epic journey to stop the Dust from flowing out of the universe, aided by a golden compass, the knife that cuts openings between worlds, and an amber spyglass.
		This fabulous fantasy trilogy begins (and ends) in Oxford, where Lyra lives with the scholars of Jordan College (but if you can find this particular college on your trip to Oxford, you're in a new world).
		Oxford University &; Visiting the colleges and Bodleian Library at Oxford University is a "must do," but the colleges seem uneasy about kids in the quadrangle.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/England/oxford.htm (1638 words)

	Warpcore SF Review of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
		At the beginning of the story we find Lyra spying on the master of Jordan college as he plans to poison Lord Asriel, the man Lyra believes to be her uncle.
		She is happy to leave Oxford with her and assist with planning a journey north.
		The roofs of Jordan College, Oxford, are her highway.
	www.warpcoresf.co.uk /northern.php (1638 words)

	Lyra's Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lyra's Oxford is set when Lyra Silvertongue is sixteen, shortly after the end of the trilogy.
		Lyra's Oxford is a short book by Philip Pullman depicting a short episode involving the heroine of His Dark Materials, Pullman's bestselling trilogy.
		Two pages from a Baedeker published in Lyra's world, a postcard from the character Mary Malone, and a brochure for the cruise ship Zenobia are also included.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lyra's_Oxford (232 words)

	Paolo and Francesca
		Lyra's temptation would have found her earlier had she and Pan not spent the day wandering the streets and alleyways of Oxford's quayside, breathing in the thick, vegetative smell of standing water, the scent of a summer river grown slow with weeds and waterborne debris.
		Lyra thought suddenly of a passage she had read in a book by a long-dead Florentine, a book she was supposed to have read last winter term, but that in truth she had only skimmed between alethiometry lessons.
		Lyra had read about this in the journals, all the time trying not to think of two things: Roger's face on the night of the rending and the possibility that part of her world still lay open to the worlds beyond, to Will's world.
	www.yuletidetreasure.org /archive/10/paoloand.html (2582 words)

	Ryan's Stuff
		Lyra Belacqua (Silvertongue) believes she is an orphan, left to the care of the scholars in Oxford's Jordan College.
		When Lyra finally finds him, with Roger at her side, Roger is kidnapped to become the requisite sacrifice; separating him from his daemon will generate the energy necessary to create the portal.
		What Lyra doesn't realize is that her father needs Roger to accomplish his goal, which is also the very thing for which he was imprisoned - he wants to create a bridge to another world, one of numerous multi-verses.
	www.genesoc.com /cms4/reviews-92.html (1208 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Subtle Knife
		Lyra goes in search of an Oxford Scholar and finds Dr. Malone, a physicist trying to answer the same questions as those of Lyra, but with theoretical physics instead of theological magic.
		Lyra Silvertongue is also in Cittagazze with her magical compass, having fled her own world.
		As soon as you're finished, you'll be able to enjoy the second book in Philip Pullman's trilogy, The Subtle Knife, and learn what becomes of Lyra Silvertongue after she leaps from her world into the unknown.
	www.sfsite.com /06a/sub34.htm (1062 words)

	LYRA GOES ON HOLIDAY
		Lyra told Elsa that Will’s full name was Will Parry, but he might be living in Oxford with Mary Malone the scientist or in Winchester with Elaine, his paranoid mother.
		Lyra was feeling very threatened by the questioning girls, but she remembered what Dame Hannah had said to her in Counseling and she wasn’t angry, nor did she throw anything at the inquisitive girls like she did before.
		Lyra was fighting the fear that was threatening to reduce her to a miserable blob.
	www.geocities.com /ceres_wunderkind/lgoh.htm (5408 words)

	Characters - The Golden Compass
		He is first captured by the Oblation board in Oxford, and when Lyra herself is captured in the far north, she is taken to the same facility as he.
		Coulter, who is really Lyra's mother, is first brought into the book as the head of the Oblation board, a faction of the church conducting experiments on childeren and their dæmons.
		When Lyra and the party of gyptians come across Iorek, he is living as an outcast in a sparsely populated northern town.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/CharactersOfTGC.html (922 words)

	Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford
		Nevertheless, it serves as a good introduction to Lyra and Oxford, if not to her world at large and her place in the greater scheme of things.
		As Lyra works to help the dæmon, she uncovers mysteries in Oxford which tell her about herself, the city and her relationship to it.
		Following the “His Dark Materials” trilogy, Phillip Pullman returns to his magical Oxford and Lyra Silvertongue for the novella "Lyra and the Birds.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/lyra.html (355 words)

	Locations
		Oxford-where Lyra returns after she and Will are separated.
		Lyra is captured by hunters and taken here, where she is almost severed from Pan.
		This is where Lyra was raised by the scholars, and where she befriended Roger.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/locations.html (1014 words)

	Travel for Kids: England
		Follow Lyra through Oxford streets as she searches for the alchemist scholar, followed by flocks of birds.
		Delightful introduction to England – legends, food (and a recipe for Hasty Pudding), family life, holidays, pets (Labradors are the most popular dog in England).
		Illustrated history of London, from Roman times when it was called Londinium, down through the Middle Ages, the Tudors, Victorian London, landmarks such as the bridges over the Thames, and London today, one of the historic cities in the world.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/England/england.htm (1014 words)

	Jordan
		Jordan College, Oxford Jordan College is a Lyra Belacqua (or Silvertongue).
		Jordan, Wisconsin Jordan is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 577.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/jordan.html (1506 words)

	Lyra Belacqua
		Though she receives little formal education she is quick-witted and canny, becoming a natural leader to the college children and the "townies" of Oxford in their intermittent conflicts with the gyptians and the children of the nearby claybeds.
		Brought up in the cloistered world of Jordan College, Oxford, she finds herself embroiled in a cosmic war between angels and a false deity called The Authority.
		Lyra is an unruly child and often exasperates those who try to care for her, such as the Jordan housekeeper and her tutors.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Lyra_Belacqua (1506 words)

	His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net
		As many of you probably know, the Oxford Botanical Garden (where Lyra and Will's seat is located), is very real.
		Magdalen College (Oxford England) is the building across the street from the Oxford Botanical Gardens.
		Kiad has some interesting pictures of His Dark Materials locations linked from her journal, including the MOMA cafe where Pullman often worked on the stories, the trepanned skulls and the Pitt Rivers Museum, and of course, the Botanical Gardens.
	www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?p=realsites (1506 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books News Pullman brings back Lyra for Oxford mystery
		Sitting on an Oxford rooftop, Lyra is drawn into a mystery when she sees a figure flying towards her, pursued by a flock of starlings.
		Pullman, who lives in Oxford, was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford, between 1965 and 1968 and has based Jordan College, Lyra's home, upon his memories of Exeter.
		Called Lyra's Oxford, it will re-introduce readers to his heroine, Lyra, and celebrate the intricate and detailed fictional landscape that Pullman has created for her.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,930535,00.html (1506 words)

	His Dark Materials .org - Children's Books; Compass, Knife and Spyglass
		With the first book of the trilogy we were given the plain but deeply intriguing story of Lyra's childhood in Jordan College, Oxford, and her adventures in the Arctic in pursuit of, or pursued by, her unfathomable parents, Mrs.
		Additionally, and crucial to the whole trilogy, there are the daemons: the creatures attendant upon and inseparable from all the denizens of that world, and, so it is said in ''The Amber Spyglass,'' of this one too.
		The high school student who found the first book, ''The Golden Compass,'' in 1995 may now be finishing college with the arrival of the third.
	www.hisdarkmaterials.org /article311.html (1506 words)

	[His Dark Materials] - [Forum] - [Jordan College]
		If you have read it, what do you think of the newest book, "Lyra's Oxford"?
		I loved it, even though it was really short.
		[His [* #His-Dark-Materials#Dark Materials] *]- [Forum] - [Jordan College]
	hdm.avidgamers.com /forum.o2966891.html (1506 words)

	His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net
		Pullman has said that Exeter College (where he attended) was his primary model for Jordan, and that Jordan inhabits the space in Lyra's world that Exeter does in our world.
		Magdalen College (Oxford England) is the building across the street from the Oxford Botanical Gardens.
		The following are links to the Exeter website, pics of different places in the college of some interest:
	www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?p=realsites (1506 words)

	Photograms :: Philip Pullman
		Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones
		Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones 2 *
		Pullman at the Lyra´s Oxford booksigning in Oxford Waterstones 3 *
	gallery.sraf.org /philip_pullman (39 words)

	His Dark Materials BridgeToTheStars.Net The Book of Dust
		However, it appears from quotes and interviews that Pullman is merely using Lyra's Oxford as a bridge to a larger story with her in the Book of Dust.
		This short story, Lyra and the Birds, developed into the publication of Lyra's Oxford, a unique book containing the short story itself and several 'materials' from Lyra's world.
		Philip Pullman is working on a sort of companion novel to His Dark Materials, entitled "The Book of Dust." This will contain various short stories about many of the secondary characters in the series, such as Lee Scoresby and Serafina Pekkala.
	www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?p=bookofdust (336 words)

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