Read The Blue Lotus

Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.

A Viking raised by Northmen, born of the stars; Rosinski's Polish-Belgian saga since 1977.

A lawyer follows a clockwork trail to a lost island of mammoths; Benoit Sokal's art.

A sailor adrift in the Pacific on the eve of 1914; Hugo Pratt's literary adventurer.

Visit Shanghai, China's largest city and global financial hub. Explore the Bund (iconic waterfront promenade with colonial-era buildings and modern skyscrapers), ascend the Shanghai Tower (632-meter skyscraper with observation decks), wander through Yu Garden (classical Chinese garden with Ming-dynasty pavilions and rockeries), and sample xiaolongbao (soup dumplings) at a local eatery.

Blue-and-white jars whose cobalt came up the Silk Road from Persia, in one of the great collections.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arms dealer, an ambush on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and a swing between Shanghai rooftops.

Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.