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The Elements of His Dark Materials features:
Foreword by Philip Pullman
140 photos
26 illustrations
11 maps (for example: Gobbler sightings, gyptians' voyage, Scoresby's journeys, Will and Iorek's route to the Himalayas)
12 chapters (for example: characters, places, applied and natural sciences, and social structures)
US and UK page numbers for each element described
Reference section with suggestions for further reading, works relating to His Dark Materials, and a Pullman bibliography.
Extra-textual remarks accompany some elements' entries and include:
Notes on text-level differences between the UK and US editions or between the three volumes;
Observations-- speculative comments
Facts-- real world counterparts to the fictional elements of the books
Updates--based on the appendices Philip Pullman added to the tenth anniversary editions of the trilogy (not yet released in the US).