Tales From a Crowded Life

Born in India in1919, Bruce Kinloch comes from a long line of soldiers and hunter-naturalists; his grandfather, Major- General AAA Kinloch CB wrote an acclaimed book on big game hunting, while his maternal grandfather Gen GN Channer VC CB was awarded the Victoria Cross while serving with the 1st Gurkha Rifles in Malaya. It was almost inevitable that young Kinloch should join the army, first to Sandhurst and then, in 1939, to the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. He served first on the North West Frontier and then during the Burma campaign where, in 1942, he received the immediate award of the Military Cross for his outstanding part in the Battle of Sittang Bridge. He later ran some of the first jungle warfare courses and commanded a Chindit battalion.

Bruce Kinloch is passionate about wildlife and its conservation. After the war, his chosen career took him to Africa, where he became at various times, Chief Game Warden of Uganda, Tanzania and finally Malawi. He oversaw the establishment and management of many of the famous National Parks and Game reserves of East Africa. His greatest achievement was to establish the College of African Wildlife Management on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro to train Africans to become game wardens of their newly independent countries.

Bruce Kinloch has written extensively on sporting and conservation matters in magazines and in his book The Shamba Raiders he tells of his involvement always to keep a balance between wildlife and the indigenous population.

Written with humour and humility it is a story of a life which many of us envy and few have had the chance to experience.

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Superbly written and illustrated throughout with scores of photographs, "Tales from a Crowded Life" conjures up, in vivid and fascinating detail, the life story of one of our greatest hunter-naturalists. Bruce's book is a lasting memorial to a period in our colonial history on which we can look back with pride, in the knowledge that our presence in Africa was to prove of enormous benefit to that continent when it needed it most. Turnstone, Shooting Times