- Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
- Number Of Pages: 62
- Publication Date: 1978-05-30
- Sales Rank: 25677
- ISBN / ASIN: 0316358509
- EAN: 9780316358507
- Binding: Paperback
- Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
- Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
- Review:
Entertaining early adventure by Tintin
After the great achievement of "The Blue Lotus", Herge decided to make a somewhat less ambitious (but still entertaining) book. This is one of those early books when a lot of things happen to Tintin in just a few pages. After a fetish from the South American Arumbaya tribe disappears from the Museum of Ethnology, and replaced with a fake, Tintin decides to investigate. After several escapes from death at the hand of two South American crooks that are also looking for the fetish, Tintin decides to travel to the fictional South American country of San Theodoros, is arrested on arrival on bogus charges, is saved in extremis by a revolution from a firing squad, named top aide to General Alcazar, tries to avoid war with the neighbouring country of Nuevo Rico brought on by the pressure of the oil companies, is arrested again, escapes and flees to the jungle, find the Arumbaya tribe, meet the two South American crooks again in the middle of the jungle, and so on. As in other early books by Tintin, real events inspired Herge: the war between San Theodoros and Nuevo Rico was based on the now forgotten Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. Herge makes this war a conspiracy by the oil companies wishing to get to the Chaco (in the Broken Ear, Chapo) region's oil, as it was in reality. Also, arms dealer Basil Bazarof is inspired by arms dealer Basil Zaharoff. Overall, an entertaing album, though as with other early books, one misses two future characters appearing in Tintin: Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus.
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