“Getambe” Jones and the Lost Railway Halt
By
Gyan C A Fernando
Illustrated by N. Senthilkumaran
I suppose, as usual, it all started off in my
childhood. As a youngster, amongst other things, I wanted to be an explorer. At
that time explorers were celebrities. One of the famous, some might say notorious,
explorer-archaeologist was Howard Carter. Carter discovered and plundered the
late boy-King Tutankhamen’s pyramid.
Then there was Hiram Bingham who “discovered” and
plundered the “Lost City” of Macchu Picchu in Peru and is now immortalised in
having a touristy and expensive train named after him, the train that runs from
Cuzco to Aguas Caliente in Peru.
