His experiences in these countries and the people he met in them all inform his characters in his comics. Raised in Venice, Pratt lived in Ethiopia, Argentina, England, France and Switzerland. Written by Hugo Pratt in the 1970’s in French and Italian, the author was almost as well traveled as his famous creation. These stories follow Corto Maltese - sea captain, rogue, pirate and adventurer -  around the world in the early decades of the 20th Century. Corto Maltese: In Siberia follows the previously translated Beyond the Windy Seas, Celtic Tales and The Ethiopian. The IDW imprint, EuroComics, continues their impressive translations of Hugo Pratt’s famous Corto Maltese’s adventures.
His goal is ostensibly a train filled with gold, but as always his real goal is adventure. Along the way he tangles with triads and tongs, nationalist armies and warlords, Bolsheviks and White Russians (no, not the drink, although he’s no teetotaler). This time, the adventurer is in Asia rushing from Hong Kong to the plains of easternmost Russia.
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