The Adventures of Tintin - Prisoners of the Sun (English Version)

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Picking up where "The Seven Crystal Balls" left off, Tintin and
Haddock arrive in Peru, where they nearly recover the kidnapped Cuthbert
Calculus but are thrown off the trail. They nearly die when their train
into the mountains is sabotaged. Deep in the mountains, they get no
help from local authorities, who fear the Inca more than they care about
helping strangers from distant lands, but they do make
friends with a young man who agrees to defy local customs and help
outsiders against the Inca. They hike inland, encountering hungry condor
who have a taste for little wire fox terriers - watch out, Snowy. They
survive an avalanche, more hostile natives, bears, anaconda and
alligator attacks, the charge of a tapir, and the embrace of an anteater
- in fact, for five pages, it feels like Tintin in the Congo (being a
mountain journey, it also feels a lot like Tintin in Tibet, which was
still a few years off). The story leads to a grand finale in the Temple
of the Sun, a hidden Inca temple, where Tintin and our friends await
certain death. Of course, a couple of coincidences help them to cheat
death yet another time, but that's all right. Interesting sequence when
Thompson and Thomson are seen wandering the earth with a pendulum that
is telling them where their friends are - except they misinterpret all
of the messages.

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