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| | Guardian Unlimited Travel | Culture | Beautifully drawn boy |
 | | Rereading Tintin in Tibet at 18, I was amazed to see familiar temples and Buddhist stupas in the background of several frames: easily identifiable as the Kathmandu I'd just visited. |
 | | The first adventure, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, draws heavily on a contemporary account by Joseph Douillet, although the blunt artwork for the strip - originally conceived as no more than a weekly serial in a children's supplement - is, on this first appearance in 1929, much more basic. |
 | | The Adventures of Tintin at Sea runs from March 31 to September 5 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF, 020 8312 8577. |
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