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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I've not yet read this thoroughly but I had to buy it because I was so amused by the title. The book is a translation of "Les Cigares du pharaon" (The Cigars of the Pharaoh). While the Welsh version, "Mwg Drwg y Pharo", literally means "The Pharaoh's bad smoke", the phrase "mwg drwg" is usually used as a slang term for cannabis (roughly akin to "wacky baccy" in English). (  ) magnuscanis | Jan 9, 2009 |  first english edition (  ) haritsa | Jul 1, 2008 | first english edition haritsa | Jul 1, 2008 | This adventure of Tintin's is a fair bit of fun as he arrives in Port Said and runs around with Doctor Sarcophagus as he looks for the tomb of a particular pharaoh. Finding it, there are a few more recent mummies contained therein. Throw in a film crew, some nogoodniks, and a firing squad for Tintin. Snowy is set to be sacrificed to Siva, as well, for some reason. http://graphicsf.blogspot.com/2007/02... (  ) bluetyson | Feb 18, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0316358363, Paperback)Cigars of the Pharaoh is one of Tintin's earliest adventures. He and Snowy are on a cruise to Egypt when they happen to meet Professor Sophocles Sarcophagus (the first of Tintin's absent-minded professors) and join his expedition. But they become embroiled in a complicated scheme involving a fakir, cigars marked with an unusual brand, and Rajijah, the poison of madness. Most significantly, Tintin meets the detectives Thompson and Thomson as well as the movie mogul Rastapopolous. While Cigars of the Pharaoh is a self-contained story, some of the mysteries are resolved in The Blue Lotus. Herge wrote Cigars in 1932 then revised it in 1955, which is why the art has the more polished look of later stories as well as the anachronistic glimpse of a copy of Destination: Moon. --David Horiuchi(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:04:58 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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