Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Three stories of the adventures of Tintin.

After buying a model of the Unicorn, young reporter Tintin discovers a secret message hidden inside the mast of the ship. The clues start to pile up as Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, find themselves sailing, flying, and riding camels around the globe on an epic adventure. Hot on the trail of the story, Tintin meets the hearty seadog Captain Haddock. The captain's ancestor Sir Francis Haddock sailed the Unicorn and fought against the pirate Red...

"Tintin part sur les traces de trafiquants d'opium à travers l'Égypte et l'Inde. Port-Saïd, Le Caire, lfr.es pyramides, les tombeaux des pharaons, la mer Rouge, la jungle et ses éléphants... Tintin va vivre des aventures peu banales : il tente d'échapper au poison qui rend fou, rencontre un archéologue extravagant, un Maharadja en danger de mort..."--fr.Tintin.com.

The boy hero comes to the United States and triumphs over gangsters in Chicago of the 1930's and the pitfalls of the wild West.

Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock search for the fabulous emerald stolen from the famous opera singer, Signora Castafiore

When Tintin gives Captain Haddock a model ship the cartoon characters are led into a strange adventure involving pirates from the reign of Charles II

Determined to find the treasure of notorious pirate Red Rackham, Tintin and Captain Haddock set sail to find the shipwreck of the Unicorn. Presented in comic book format.

Herge first published Le Lotus Bleu in the magazine Le Petit Vingtieme in Brussels in 1934-5: the story itself is set in 1931. At that time Japanese troops were occupying parts of the Chinese mainland, and Shanghai, the great seaport at the mouth of the Yangtze Kiang, possessed an International Settlement, a trading base in China for Western nations, administered by the British and Americans. Herge based his narrattive freely upon the events of the...