Mr. Roosevelt photographing the speared lion 
The Book a Classic of 
Outdoor Life 
M R. ROOSEVELT, writing from Cairo, at the 
end of his journey, to his publishers, said : 
“I regard this book as a serious 
thing. I have put my very best into 
it and I cannot consent to have it 
appear in any but first-class form.” 
It has been written at the maturity of his skill 
and experience as an author — his twenty-fourth 
complete volume. The very fact that after many 
years of dictating his public papers and books he 
has returned, in this volume, to writing with his 
own hand has given the style a personal quality 
which will be hard to find in any previous volume 
of his, fine as they are in expressing the man. 
