Books
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Rs 500.00Add to cartWritten by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss and illustrated by his son Johann Emmanuel Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance.
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Tin Tin – Prisoners of the Sun
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe story tells of young reporterTintin, his dog Snowy, and friend Captain Haddock as they continue their efforts to rescue the kidnapped Professor Calculus by travelling through Andean villages, mountains, and rain forests, before finding a hidden Inca civilisation.
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Tin Tin – Red Rackham’s Treasure
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe story was serialised daily in Le Soir, Belgium’s leading francophone newspaper, from February to September 1943 amidst the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. Completing an arc begun in The Secret of the Unicorn, the story tells of young reporter Tintin and his friendCaptain Haddock as they launch an expedition to the Caribbean to locate the treasure of the pirate Red Rackham.
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Tin Tin – The Black Island
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who travel to England in pursuit of a gang of counterfeiters. Framed for theft and hunted by detectives Thomson and Thompson, Tintin follows the criminals to Scotland, discovering their lair on the Black Island.
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Tin Tin – The Blue Lotus
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe Blue Lotus (French: Le Lotus bleu) is the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin,Cigars of the Pharaoh, left off, the story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are invited to China in the midst of the 1931Japanese invasion, where he reveals the machinations of Japanese spies and uncovers a drug-smuggling ring.
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Tin Tin – The Calculus Affair
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe narrative follows the attempts of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock to rescue their friendProfessor Calculus, a scientist who has developed a machine capable of destroying objects with sound waves, from kidnapping attempts by the competing European countries of Borduria and Syldavia.
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Tin Tin – The Castafiore Emerald
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThis is the only book in the Tintin series where the characters remain at home in Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock’s family estate in Belgium, and do not travel abroad or confront dangerous criminals. The plot concerns the visit of the opera singerBianca Castafiore and the subsequent theft of her emerald.
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Tin Tin – The Land Of Black Gold
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartSet on the eve of a European war, the plot revolves around the attempts of young Belgian reporter Tintin to uncover a militant group responsible for sabotaging oil supplies in the Middle East.
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Tin Tin – The Red Sea Sharks
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe Red Sea Sharks is the nineteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin,The narrative follows the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and his friend Captain Haddock as they travel to the (fictional) Middle Eastern kingdom of Khemed with the intention of aiding the Emir Ben Khalish Ezab in regaining control after a coup d’état by his enemies, who are financed by slave traders.
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Tin Tin – The Shooting Star
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartThe story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin, who travels with his dog Snowy and friend Captain Haddock aboard a scientific expedition to theArctic Ocean on an international race to find a meteorite that has fallen to the Earth.
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Tin Tin – Tin Tin And The Picaros
Rs 1,860.00Add to cartTintin and his dog Snowy and his friends Captain Haddockand Professor Calculus as they travel to the (fictional) South American nation of San Theodoros to rescue their friendBianca Castafiore, who has been imprisoned by the government of General Tapioca. Once there, they become involved in the anti-government revolutionary activities of Tintin’s old friend General Alcazar.