Patrick Mynhardt

Cornel Wilde is Man, the great white hunter whose safari is wiped out by angry tribesmen. Impressed with his bravery, they give him a "lion's chance" to save his life. He is stripped of clothes, weapons and given a head start. Then for four days and nights he struggles to survive with the village's best lion killers in close pursuit.

Both poetic and polemical, Doris Lessing exploded onto the literary scene with her first novel in 1950. Set in her native Rhodesia, it boldly lifted the lid on themes of psychology, racism, feminism and colonialism.