Pratt Hugo Libri

Mushroom Heads begins in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where Corto Maltese and Professor Steiner lead an expedition on the trail of the legendary El Dorado, financed by the antiquarian Levi Colombia.

Set in the years 1921-22, the action leaps from Turkey, to Azerbaijan, and to the Caspian Sea, tracing the path of the legendary Silk Road, as Corto hunts for the fabled treasure of Alexander the Great.

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, Corto Maltese is engaged by the Red Lanterns - a Chinese secret society made up entirely of women - to find an armored train laden with gold that belonged to the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. They aren't the only ones lusting after the treasure.

In this affectionate tribute to his home town, Hugo Pratt offers a complex mystery thriller involving Freemasons, occultists, and esotericists set during the rise of Fascism in 1921. Corto Maltese's return to Venice is ostensibly a search for an emerald known as the Clavicle of Solomon, but by the end he is left questioning whether the object of his quest will open the hidden doors of magic and unravel the nature of time and space in this city of secrets...or if it's merely "the stuff that dreams are made of," as was the black bird of Dashiell Hammett's novel featuring another Maltese. Series winner of the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.

The third book in the series of collections reprinting every story drawn by Hugo Pratt for the British comics industry, this volume collects both of Hugo Pratt's stories featuring the UK character Battler Britton, Wagons of Gold and Rockets of Revenge.

"Visiting the writer Hermann Hesse while researching alchemists with his old friend Professor Steiner, Corto drinks from the 'source of the Alchemy Rose' and becomes immersed in a surreal and dreamlike adventure that involves Klingsor, the quest for the Holy Grail, Death, the Devil, and the Sandman, among others"--Provided by publisher.

The first in a major series of new collections bringing the long lost UK war comics of Italian art maestro Hugo Pratt to the public.

"Set in the snowy wastelands of Canada around 1912, this provocative graphic novel deals with complex moral choices. Jesuit Joe, the protagonist, is of French-Canadian and Mohawk descent and is embarked on an obsessive religious search for the Absolute. His actions reflect a disturbed personality with an unorthodox ethical code. He kills with terrible ease and reveals an unmatched cruelty and ferocity, yet when his mood suddenly shifts, he is capable of unexpected acts of kindness and compassion. He wears the red serge jacket of the Canadian Mounties that he found in a hut, which gives rise to a series of misunderstandings when he is mistaken for a member of the Canadian Mounted Police, and is tracked by his nemesis, Sergeant Fox, whose mission is to capture Jesuit Joe and bring him to justice." Page 4 of cover.

In Night of the Devil, take a hallucinatory trip through the oppressive heat of the Burmese jungle along with British soldiers engaged in desperate skirmishes with the enemy, fully illustrated by Hugo Pratt.

1940 rok, Afryka Wschodnia. Druga wojna światowa widziana oczami polskiego żołnierza. Porucznik Koïnsky służy w brytyjskim oddziale Long Range Desert Group, którego znakiem rozpoznawczym jest złoty skorpion. W czasie działań wojennych spotyka wojskowych o różnych charakterach i poglądach, są wśród nich: faszysta i oportunista Stella, bezkompromisowy Cush czy kapitan Palchetti – wielbiciel opery i „dyrygent” położonej na pustkowiu twierdzy. Koïnskiego czeka pełna przygód wyprawa przez jałowe wydmy afrykańskiej pustyni, gdzie opuszczone forty i porzucone oazy zamieszkują nietypowe osobowości: waleczne wojowniczki, żądni krwi beduini, romantyczni bardowie i zakochani urzędnicy – wszyscy zostali wciągnięci w konflikt, w którym nikt nie wie, po czyjej stronie powinien się opowiedzieć. W lepkim, gęstym i nieprzyjaznym klimacie Sahary bohaterowie pakują się w tarapaty albo… popadają w szaleństwo. „Pustynne Skorpiony” to opowieść z wyraźnym wątkiem autobiograficznym. Pojawiają się w niej także postaci znane już czytelnikom kultowej serii Hugona Pratta – „Corto Maltese”.