Harry Escombe
A Tale of Adventure in Peru
By Harry Collingwood
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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 is worshipped as
a god. This could be quite embarrassing if you found yourself in this
situation, as you'd be unable to perform miracles, and do the things a
deity might be expected to do. However, Harry managed rather well. But
eventually he manages to escape from the situation, and to return to his
home in England.
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HARRY ESCOMBE
A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN PERU