In this captivating, suspenseful memoir, white lion
conservationist Linda Tucker describes her perilous
struggle to protect the sacred white lion from the
merciless and mafia-like trophy-hunting industry, armed
only with her indomitable spirit and total devotion. Her
story begins in 1991 with a heart-stopping misadventure
in the Timbavati Reserve of South Africa. Tucker then a
successful advertising executive and a group of fellow
travelers found themselves surrounded by a pride of
angry lions. There was no way out, night had fallen, and
the battery in their only flashlight was beginning to
flicker. Miraculously, a local medicine woman, with two
youngsters in tow, passed, trancelike and fearless,
through the lions and escorted them all to safety. For
Tucker, that life-threatening experience became a
life-changing one. She abandoned her career, left
Europe, and returned to Timbavati to track down the
medicine woman who had saved her: Maria Khosa. Upon
seeing Tucker again, Khosa only smiled and said, What
took you so long? She had been expecting her, and there
was so much to do. Under Khosa s shamanic tutelage,
Tucker learned of her sacred destiny: to be the keeper
of the white lions, believed to be angelic beings sent
to Earth to save humanity at a time of crisis. Khosa
also prophesized that the queen of the white lions the
embodiment of the mother of Ra, the sun god would soon
be born, on a day and in a place considered holy by
Westerners. On December 25, 2000, in the little South
Africa town of Bethlehem, a snowy white lion cub, Marah,
was born. From the moment of her first meeting with
Marah, Tucker s story immediately takes off into battle,
as she dedicates her every waking moment to prying Marah
and her siblings from the grips of the trophy-hunting
industry. Compellingly written in the intimate style of
a journal, Tucker describes with unflinching honesty her
fears, doubts, hopes, and dreams, all the while
unfolding for us an unforgettable tale of adventure,
romance, spirituality, and most of all, justice.
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