The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Volumes 1-3

While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year old Indy encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeological dig in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings.

On safari in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the vast and dangerous wilderness. Later, in Paris, he explores the fine-art scene and the rather wilder cafe scenes of Montmartre with a young Norman Rockwell.

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung to discover what love is all about.

In June 1919, when Indy returns home after three year, he finds his father as cold and distant as ever. Looking for a way to reach him, he recalls when they were closer... back in 1909 when Indy traveled with his father to Russia on his lecture tour.

The elder Jones's lecture tour takes parents and son to India, where Indy explores the meaning of faith in oneself with Theosophist philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The two must contend with German spies and struggle to keep Edison's new invention out of enemy hands.

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member Winston Churchill, become vivid vignettes in Indy's life.

As a young soldier in the Belgian Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare while participating in the battle of the Somme.

Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sent thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain.

Indy is ordered to locate and destroy a powerful German artillery gun that is mysteriously able to appear and disappear at will, leaving death and destruction in its wake.

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death.

Young Indiana Jones is assigned to the Lafayette Escadrille squadron during World War I, where he will face the great Red Baron in combat.

Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria.

Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies.

Receiving orders to assist the British in an attack on the ancient Middle Eastern desert town of Beersheba, Indy goes undercover with a beautiful lady spy.

In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring swift end to the war.

A top secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the First World War. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder.

Indy and Remy travel from France to England, Egypt, Java and New Guinea in search of a magnificent diamond, meeting adventure and famous figures of history every step of the way.

Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - is a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh.

On summer break from college, Indy stage-manages a new Broadway musical revue composed by George Gershwin. Indy also trades quips with the razor wits of the famed Algonquin Round Table.

Carl Laemmle sends Indy to Hollywood to ensure that a runaway production is either finished in two weeks or shut down, but the picture's director, Erich von Stroheim, is too clever for him.