Sauce for the Mongoose
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Bruce Kinloch
Bruce Kinloch MC was born at Saharanpur in India and educated at Berkhamsted School in England. He was commissioned into the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles after leaving Sandhurst in 1939, fought with them in Burma and on the Northwest Frontier, and won the Military Cross for his part in...
is a non-fiction tale of how a family adopts a baby mongoose
Mongoose
Mongoose are a family of 33 living species of small carnivorans from southern Eurasia and mainland Africa. Four additional species from Madagascar in the subfamily Galidiinae, which were previously classified in this family, are also referred to as "mongooses" or "mongoose-like"...
who they name "Pipa", the word for barrel in Swahili
Swahili language
Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...
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The book also contains black and white plates in the center with pictures of the author, his family and Pipa.