Mystery of the White Lions by Linda Tucker

Mystery of the White Lions (Npenvu Press Hardcover in Original Dust Jacket)

A Personal Journey into African Lion Shamanism and the Sacred White Lions of the Timbavati

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Mystery of the White Lions: Children of the Sun God
• Author: Linda Tucker
• Publisher: Npenvu Press, White River, Mapumulanga, South Africa
• Publication Date: 2003
• ISBN-13: 9780620314091
• ISBN-10: 0620314095
• Edition Details: First Edition, Npenvu Press hardcover.
• Binding: Publisher's black cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to the spine, in a printed dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo) hardcover, 400 pages. With diagrams within the text and a colour insert.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Good (G)
• Exterior / Boards: The dark cloth boards are clean, with a small light mark near the top of the back board. The head of the spine is slightly bumped and frayed. The dust jacket carries the main wear to the exterior (see below).
• Interior: The text pages are clean and bright, with no foxing or markings. The binding is tight.
• The Dust Jacket: Present but damaged. Chipped and torn at the head of the spine with some loss of jacket material, and a chipped, torn upper back corner. Surface scuffing and rubbing to the front panel, and a torn price sticker remnant over the barcode on the back. Graded Good to Fair. Protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Mystery of the White Lions: Children of the Sun God is Linda Tucker's personal account of her passage into African lion shamanism. After being rescued from a life-threatening encounter with lions in the Timbavati region by a sangoma known as the Lion Queen, she sets out to understand the white lion, regarded as among the most sacred animals on the continent.

The white lion is a genetic rarity of Panthera leo, recorded in one region of the earth only: the Timbavati. Tucker follows its significance through African shamanism and the teachings of Credo Mutwa, and through sites such as Sterkfontein and Great Zimbabwe. She also draws links to ancient Egypt and the sphinx, and considers the ethics of canned trophy hunting.

This is the Npenvu Press printing of a book first issued as Children of the Sun God in 2001. It is a sought-after title for collectors of Africana, wildlife conservation literature and South African spiritual and cultural writing.

Author Profile: Linda Tucker

Linda Tucker was educated at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge, where she specialised in Jungian dream psychology and medieval symbolism. She gave up a career in international marketing and fashion to become a conservationist after her 1991 rescue from lions.

She founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust in 2002 and has presented to the South African Parliament and the British Parliament. Her later memoir, Saving the White Lions, was published by North Atlantic Books in 2013.

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