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Harry Escombe, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
Author: Harry Collingwood
Illustrator: Victor Prout
Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21066]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
By Harry Collingwood _______________________________________________________________________Harry Escombe is a young apprentice in a civil engineer's office. The firm has received a contract to survey and built a railway line in Peru. Harry is chosen to go, and is informed that if he does well in the work the future for him is pretty bright.
But there is a fly in the ointment. The man in charge of the project is about as nasty as anyone can be: his character is beautifully depicted throughout the book. He makes Harry do a piece of surveying in an unnecessarily dangerous manner, as a result of which he falls down a precipice from which he cannot be rescued, and is therefore written off as dead.
But he was indeed rescued. He was taken to a house where he remained in a coma for some time. Then he is thought to be a re-incarnation of The Inca, and taken by Indians to their own city, where he i