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The Red Sea Sharks (The Adventures of Tintin) (Paperback)
by Hergé
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Adventure, Fiction, Ages 9-12, Children's book |
| Market price: ¥ 128.00
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¥ 118.00
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Author: Hergé
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. in: September, 1976
ISBN: 0316358487
Pages: 62
Measurements: 10.8 x 7.1 x 0.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00147
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What makes The Red Sea Sharks one of the best Tintin adventures is that there are even more dastardly deeds being done by the bad guys this time around (involving "coke" smuggling). Herge continues to explore the class between Western and Near Eastern cultures as Captain Haddock has to wear a veil as a disguise and Snowy has a memorable encounter with a cheetah, while back home Professor Calculus and Nestor do their best to keep Prince Abdullah, ah, entertained. Herge might have created an imaginative parallel world for Tintin's adventures, but they certainly echo serious real world concerns, and that is especially true of The Red Sea Sharks. As an added pleasure, the good captain gets to vent time and time again at people who really deserve to be roundly cursed out, even by Haddock's peculiar collection of epithets.
Target readers:
Kids aged up 6
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Hergé (pseudonym of Georges Remi), Belgian author and illustrator, created Tintin in 1929 and produced 24 volumes of the internationally famous bande dessinée by the time of his death. Known as the father of the modern European comic book, Hergé's impeccable style and superb use of color won him international acclaim after the Second World War, and the books have been translated from the original French into some 40 languages.
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After a strange encounter with General Alcazar of San Theodoros, and then getting home to see that Emir Ben Kalish Ezab has sent his thoroughly obnoxious son, Prince Abdullah, to stay at Marlinspike, the Emir is deposed by the evil Revolutionary thug, Sheik Bab El Er.
Tintin and the Captain fly to Khemed, to try to get to the bottom of an illegal arms buying racket and if they can, to help their friend, the Emir.
There they take a boat to Mecca, where they must battle several enemies, in a high adventure on the Red Sea. Before the adventure is through, they will break a slave smuggling ring and ensure the defeat of several villains.
The issue of slave trade by Arabs , of Africans , was not only still going on when this book was written in 1958 , but is still endemic today , in places such as the Sudan.
These adventures are always full, of life and colour.
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Abdulla (MSL quote), Saudi Arabia
<2007-01-05 00:00>
I love this book; it reminds me of going to sea with friends, a beautiful sea adventure. Since I read it, I just loved the artwork of Herge; he really did a great job of bringing the characters and scenery to life!
If you once looked at the water you'll see it really blue and there's waves crashing on shore, just like a real sea! Also, the characters drawn are humanlike.
Enough with the praise on artwork, let's head on to the comical features. I really loved Captain Haddock when he started dancing on the raft like a maniac, happy when he saw and felt that he's saved! He danced until the raft broke under him!
Simply, one of the most brilliantly created Tintin stories. This would delight children AND adults like me as well, for years to come!
The writing too is also in good English and I feel that Leslie Londsale Cooper and her companion translated it so well!
I simply give 5 stars because it is an excellent book and would be one of my personal favourites of all time! |
Tom Chamberlain (MSL quote), UK
<2007-01-05 00:00>
The Tintin adventure stories are all really good and this is probably the best one with all the characters. Quite a few of the characters that have made appearances throughout the series appear in this story and the main adventure involves Tintin and the Captain and a slave trading gang and get into a thrilling adventure at sea. I am a big fan of the Tintin books and this one has to be one of the best. |
Gordon (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-05 00:00>
This is Herge in the 1950s, his art having reached a fully mature style. There's just something so open and exciting about this book - the exotic locale, the breathless adventure and palpable danger, the complex political scenario. First-rate stuff, marred, alas, by a patronizing portrayal of black Muslims being sold into slavery. It's racist, but at any rate considerably less so than Tintin in the Congo. |
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