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

"Picking up where Destination Moon left off, Professor Calculus and Tintin discover a secret agent has managed to sneak onboard the rocket with plans to hijack it and abandon everyone on the moon!"--Amazon.com.

When opera star Bianca Castafiore is arrested on a visit to South America, Tintin and his friends come to her rescue.

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...