Asterix and the Great Crossing

Asterix and the Great Crossing

Presentation

Written by: Goscinny

Drawings by: Uderzo
Original title: La Grande Traversée

Published by: Hachette Livre
First album edition: 1975
Cartoon film adaptation: Asterix conquers America (1995)

Out at sea fishing, Asterix and Obelix are blown off course in a storm. Luckily they land on the shores of a Roman colony – or is it? Teepees, totems, gobbling birds: it’s not what they’re used to.

 

And what are the Viking explorers in their longships doing? But perhaps 50 BC is a little too early for a voyage of discovery to this strange New World …

What the druids have to say about the album

The authors provokingly give us entirely white or black pages cheekily justified by mists or fog. Perhaps this is a memory of Pilote days and the spirit of rebelliousness.

 

Be that as it may, the pages with the Indians are delicious, and the gobble-gobbles priceless. When Asterix and Obelix discover the New World, they don’t do things by halves. And so the album, which sees them blazing a trail through territory belonging to Oompah Pah the Indian (another Goscinny and Uderzo character) has benefited from an American translation alongside the traditional English one. The same goes for Asterix the LegionaryAsterix at the Olympic GamesAsterix in Britain and Asterix and Cleopatra.

 

Some character names have changed too. For instance, Vitalstatistix in the English versions becomes Macroeconomix in the American.

Various versions of the album

La grande traversée

Français – Éditions Hachette

La Grande Traversée

Français – Éditions Hachette – La Grande Collection

Die große Überfahrt

Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection

Die große Überfahrt

Allemand – Egmont Comic Collection – Die Utimative Édition

La gran travesia

Espagnol – Salvat

La gran travesia

Espagnol – Salvat La colección

La gran travessia

Catalan – Salvat

A Grande Travessia

Portugais – ASA

A Grande Travessia

Portugais – A colecção – Salvat

Asterix and the Great Crossing

Anglais – Orion

De grote oversteek

Néerlandais – Éditions Hachette

Asterix ja Suuri Merimatka

Finnois – Egmont Kustannus OY AB

Asterix in america

Italien – Panini Comics

아스테릭스, 신대륙을발견하다
Asteriks,sindaeryug-ül balgyeonhada

Coréen – Moonji

Asterix opdager Amerika!

Danois – Egmont A/S

Resan över Atlanten

Suédois – Egmont AB

Asteriks Büyük Yolculuk

Turc – Remzi Kitabevi

A Grande Travessia

Brésilien (Portugais) – Record

Wielka przeprawa

Polonais – Egmont Sp

Över’t wiede Water

Mundart 64 – Plattdeutsch IV

The bookseller’s corner

Classic paperback collection

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-648-2
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48

Hardback edition

N° ISBN : 978-0-75286-647-5
Format : 287 x 216 mm
Pages : 48