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Elegant, daring, generous, Corto Maltese travels around the world wherever his current whim tales him. In every exotic locale his code of honor leads him to battle on behalf of the poor and the weak, battles he win due to his sparkling wit and daring.
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
Tudy, a young lifeboat who belongs to a great family of rescuers, dreams of heroic rescues on the high seas. Alas her father, the Admiral, fears to lose his daughter as he lost his wife and he forbids her to leave the harbor. However, an encounter with her idol Begbraz, a lifeboat whose exploits she admires deeply, will change everything. When he asks for assistance, Tudy doesn’t hesitate to set sail and join him at sea which will be the beginning of a long journey. With the help of Ahab the crab and Adèle the seagull, she will thwart a fishing poaching network and prove to her father that she is ready to perpetuate the glorious lineage of rescuers of the Island of Avel.
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia. To assist him in his quest, he enlists his old friend/nemesis the unbelievable Raspoutine whom he first has to help escape from the prison of Samarkand (aka "La maison dorée de Samarkand", the golden house of Samarkand). On the long and tortured way to the riches, he encounters all kind of interesting characters, soldiers of fortune, lost British actors, and even his doppelgänger.
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