The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 1,106 ratings

Price: 13.38

Last update: 03-13-2025


About this item

Somewhere deep inside, you know what your gift, purpose, and mission are. Boyd Varty, a lion tracker and life coach, reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize these essential ingredients in a meaningful life.

Know how to navigate, don’t worry about the destination, and stay alert. These are just a few of the strategies that contribute to both successful lion tracking and a life of fulfillment. When we join Boyd Varty and his two friends tracking lions, we are immersed in the South African bush, and, although we learn some of the skills required for actual tracking, the takeaways are the strategies that can be applied to our everyday lives. Trackers learn how to use all of their senses to read the environment and enter into a state of “greater aliveness”. When we learn to find and follow our inner tracks, we learn to see what is deeply important to us. In the same way the trip in the classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a vehicle to examine how to live out our values, the story of this one-day adventure—with danger and suspense along the way—uses the ancient art of tracking to convey profound lessons on how to live a purposeful, meaningful life of greater harmony.


Top reviews from the United States

kyle
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
This definitely ranks up there with the Alchemist as one of those books you absolutely must read. I have read this book a dozen times and listened to it twice on audible. I have gifted this book 4x now and every person has thanked me over for a book they never heard of with such a profound lesson to be learned. Super easy to read, most people are done in a few days or shorter because you do not want to put it down. I suffer from extreme low cycles of depression and I read this book every single time to help me re-value my life, the meaning, its simplicity, and every time this book helps lift me back up. If you know anyone who has hit a plateau, feels down, suffers from any level of depression, or on the opposite side loves to keep pushing themselves this is the best book gift ever. I promise you. I actually keep 2 extra copies at home just in case the occasion arises and I need to give someone a copy. Audible has the actual author narrate as well so it’s great to hear his South African accent as well. You will then read in that accent. It’s wonderful.
David Coleman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, great message.
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024
So happy I read this book. Celebration of heighten awareness paired with the thrill of the unknown as a recipe for living. Thanks.
JC
4.0 out of 5 stars Take me to another place
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2019
This is a quick, enjoyable easy read. The reader can take what they want from the book as the story runs parallel to life lessons.

I think this was written from an honest and vulnerable place, and that it was quite a brave book to write.
Phil Dunn
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible and simple small book
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024
This little book can easily be completed in a weekend - and it will end up being most fun you're going to have on a weekend for a long while.
Adrienne C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom from the natural world
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2024
Londolozi is a bucket list destination for me. Boyd has shared powerful wisdom within these pages. It was a joy to read his story, the story of Londolozi and his use of tracking as a metaphor for finding your essence.
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful
Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2023
Loved the book, has loads of eye opening quotes of life, strong story imagery and just a great overall vibe. 10/10 recommended
Madam Stealth
5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing & Well Worth the Read
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
Boyd Varty’s “The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life” likens finding fulfillment with tracking a lion. Using South African animal pursuing strategies, he steps you thru finding your own prey, i.e., happiness, joy, success, self-realization, etc. Paired with beautiful illustrations of the wild, Boyd teaches you how to move slowly, look for the next track, and listen to what your body tells you. At only 118 pages, the short read is long on meaningful allegory and entertainment.
Will Matthews
5.0 out of 5 stars Find That First Track In Life
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2022
The book follows a day in Boyd’s life where he is tracking a lion with his two fellow trackers in the Londolozi Game Reserve. Throughout the day he is reflecting on life, the connections to nature and how tracking can be used as a kind of a dot-to-dot drawing for life. But also using & implementing tracking in your everyday life, looking for that first track, analysing and understanding it. Which is the key, this can lead to more tracks and a pathway throughout life if you let it evolve.

He draws the connection how we have lost something in our lives as humans, many of us without value, direction and belonging. How the disconnection of nature, almost disconnects our souls from our bodies & minds. Rolling through day to day in a lifeless, empty, directionless fashion. Have you ever just felt empty and without purpose? Boyd gets that, in his own way, and extends his thoughts in a beautiful fashion that makes you think about everything from a different angle. As he says “We operate on autopilot. We are in our lives, but we are not alive”.

It’s about stripping away the grandiose of life, everything that gets in the way of seeing what’s in front of you, everything that hides the little enjoyments of life. Everything that stops you from actually living and working this game out. If you’ve been stuck in the mud spinning your metaphorical wheels in place worrying about “what I am meant to do” or “what I am suppose to do”, then maybe this book is for you. It’ll give you such a lovely simplistic way of thinking about things from a different angle.

“I don’t know where I am going, but I know exactly how to get there”. The path out in front of each of us is not clear, is not straight forward and is not without twists, turns and challenges along the way. Understanding this, leaning into it, taking the pressure off and enjoying things, especially the little things, on this vast and varied journey called life is the key.

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