Travels of a Boy Reporter

A Unique Gift to be Treasured Forever

Follow in the Footsteps of Tintin

The twists and turn of Tintin’s adventures in The Shooting Star can be followed.

From the depths of the ocean to the peaks of the highest mountains and beyond into space, Hergé’s Tintin explored the world and millions of children explored it with him. Revisit that innocent excitement of childhood with Travels of a Boy Reporter.

Loving created by a lifelong Tintin fan, this map plots each of the boy reporter’s journeys across the globe and into space. Readers from seven to seventy can track the intrepid hero’s travels, page by page, as they read. Opening a new world of understanding into how Hergé’s careful research, dedication to accuracy and occasional mistake shaped his masterwork.

Hergé wrote and completed twenty three different adventures in his life time. From the hard to find Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1929) to his final work, Tintin and the Picaros, in 1979. Travels of a Boy Reporter plots the route of each of these.

Praise for Travels of a Boy Reporter

An Education in Geography

The map carefully plots Tintin’s travels in the far east, overcoming the challenges thrown up by eighty turbulent years of wars, revolutions and name changes.

Hergé was passionate about educating and informing young people. He knew what a difference a good education can make, especially when dealing with peoples and cultures different from our own. Every culture or country Tintin visited was carefully researched by Hergé and this is reflected in the books. From Thomson & Thompson’s constant attempts to disguise themselves with the national dress of each country, to the richly detailed street scenes in The Blue Lotus and Tintin in Tibet.

The Travels of a Boy Reporter map continues this tradition with meticulous attention to detail and research. Sometimes this was easy. Hergé frequently used specific landmarks and even included percise co-ordinates occasionally. But often he was vague about the exact location and every frame of every book was analyzed for clues. How people dressed, the languages spoken, the vegetation and the animals all helped pin point each step of Tintin’s journeys.

Not everywhere Tintin visited was a real place, Hergé often used fictional countries such as Syldavia. Solving the puzzles of these locations took months of work, examining different version of each story and tracking down every possible reference. The result is a map more complete than many Tintin fans thought possible.

“What I Always Wanted”

Tintin’s jourrney through the fictional countries of Syldavia and Borduria.

Designed by life long Tintinologist Chris Tregenza, this work was born out of a long held desire.

“I learnt to read on Tintin and I learnt so much about the world but I always wanted more. As a small child I would find my Father’s atlas and look up the wonderful places Tintin had visited and dream of going there myself.”

“Years later, during the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, I started sketching out a map thinking it would only take a few days. Five months of constant work later I had the first prototype in my hand and it was still a couple of months later that the final version was complete.”

“This map has taught me so much about the world.”

3 Stunning Versions

Travels of a Boy Reporter is available in three stunning versions to suit every Tintin fan.

Poster Edition

A3 420mm × 297mm (16.5″ x 11.7″)

Ideal for the younger Tintin fan, it is the perfect addition to any bedroom wall .

Collector’s Edition

A2 594mm x 420mm (23.4″ x 16.5″)