Jackie Morris's daughter on how Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights inspired her passion for Arctic marine mammals Ever since I can remember, I’ve had an obsession with the arctic. It comes from Phillip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’, in particular, ‘The Northern Lights’. Its actually one of the first books I read and had probably influenced my life in too many ways! Lyra was drawn by tales of armoured bears, witch clans and cliff ghasts. For me, its the vast ice plains, narwha