Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God - Linda Tucker
Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God
A Firsthand Account of Mystical Shamanism, Tribal Customs, and the Battle Against Canned Trophy Hunting in the Timbavati
A Firsthand Account of Mystical Shamanism, Tribal Customs, and the Battle Against Canned Trophy Hunting in the Timbavati
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God
- Author: Linda Tucker
- Publisher: Npenvu Press, South Africa
- Publication Date: 2003 (First Edition)
- ISBN-13: 9780620314091 (ISBN-10: 0620314095)
- Edition Details: First Hardcover Edition. Original Unabridged Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium black paper-covered cloth boards with elegant gold/gilt-stamped typography along the spine; complete with original illustrated dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 400 pages. Augmented with illustrative sections, index, and cultural plates.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original black cloth boards remain flat, structurally rigid, and exceptionally square. The gold gilt lettering on the spine is vibrant and untarnished. The corners remain sharp and free of standard shelf indentation or bumping. The heavy spine remains perfect, upright, and structurally flawless.
- Interior: The thick 400-page text block is robustly bound, tight, and remarkably fresh. Internal pages, cultural charts, and text margins are pristine, clean, completely intact, and free of reader highlighting, annotations, or dog-ears.
- Provenance: Clean collector's state; entirely free of modern previous owner signatures, library institutional stamps, or dealer pencil notations.
- Protection: Kept pristine and safely enclosed within a custom archival-grade protective cellophane sleeve.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: Bright and complete. Displays only very slight, superficial signs of handling and minimal shelf-friction along the outer extremities, fully consistent with careful archival housing over the years. Free of deep tears, major chips, or sun fading.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published by Npenvu Press in 2003, Mystery of the White Lions - Children of the Sun God is Linda Tucker’s extraordinary, groundbreaking firsthand account of her journey into the sacred mysteries of the most revered animal on the African continent. After a life-threatening encounter with lions in the Timbavati game region, Tucker was rescued by a legendary medicine woman known as the "Lion Queen". This pivotal event launched her into a deep immersion into the oral traditions, ceremonies, and guarded knowledge of Old Africa.
Tucker explores the mystical connection where human consciousness and animal spirits cross the species barrier, drawing fascinating parallels to Ancient Egypt, the riddle of the Sphinx, and early evolutionary links between humanity and the great cats. Concurrently, the narrative exposes the devastating reality of the modern "canned" trophy hunting industry, where these genetically rare variants of Panthera leo are hand-reared and shot in enclosures for massive profit. Contradicting this practice, African shamans view the killing of a "lion sun god" as the ultimate sacrilege. Part spiritual memoir, part investigative environmental text, and part study of African astrology, this original unabridged hardcover edition remains a foundational text for collectors of Africana folklore, eco-spirituality, and big cat conservation history.
Author Profile: Linda Tucker
Linda Tucker is a dedicated South African environmentalist, author, and founder of the Global White Lion Protection Trust. Educated at the University of Cape Town and Cambridge University, she specialized in cultural semiotics before altering her career path following her experiences in the Timbavati bush. Her extensive work in wildlife activism and indigenous rights bridges scientific conservation models with ancient African shamanic lineages, earning her international acclaim as an uncompromising voice for ecosystem protection and sacred animal preservation.
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