Hugo Pratt
The graphic novelist Hugo Pratt was born in Rimini in Italy. He spent his life between Venice, Argentina, France and Switzerland. He has written at least twenty books in his best known series, Corto Maltese, which has been translated into many languages.
Three of his best known graphic novels are available from Leabhar Breac, Port na Farraige Goirt, An Teach Órga i Samarkand and Corto sa tSibéir, as well as four short novelettes.
Hugo Pratt interview on YouTube.
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An Buille Scoir
Hugo Pratt€7.50A graphic novel in the series 'Corto Maltese'. 1918, The 'Horn of Africa' is under British rule. When Captain Bradt, from the King's African Rifles, shares a terrible...
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An Teach Órga i Samarkand
Hugo Pratt€12.00A graphic novel for adult and young adult readers. 1921: Corto Maltese leaves the island of Rhodes in search of Persian gold - a treasure hidden by Alexander...
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Corto sa tSibéir
Hugo Pratt€12.001918: Corto Maltese leaves Hong Kong in search of the treasure train of the Tsars. Accompanied by his comrade, Rasputin, he traverses a world inhabited by soviets and...
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In Ainm Dé Uilethrócairigh
Hugo Pratt€7.50A graphic novel in the series 'Corto Maltese'. 1916, Corto aids the bedouin El Oxford rescue the young prince Saoud from a prison in the middle of the...
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Na Liopard-Fhir ó Rufiji
Hugo Pratt€7.50A graphic novel in the series 'Corto Maltese'. East Africa, 1918, in the Rufiji Delta Lieutenant Tenton and Captain Mac Griogair of the British Army, welcome Corto on...
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Port na Farraige Goirt
Hugo Pratt€12.00A graphic novel for adult and young adult readers: 1914, somewhere in the southwestern Pacific, Captain Rasputin’s sailing boat comes upon a man strapped to a raft adrift in...
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Tóraíocht Eile
Hugo Pratt€7.50A graphic novel in the series 'Corto Maltese'. Corto and his friend, the Danakil warrior Cuis are travelling in Abbysinia in the Horn of Africa. They visit Cuis's...