The Book of the Lion

On Safari, B.E.A.,

16th October 1909.

To Sir Alfred E. Pease.

Dear Sir Alfred,—I am very much pleased that you are to write a book about lion-hunting. Very, very few people have an experience which better justifies such a book. It is the king of all sports when carried on as you have carried it on, especially when you gallop the lion, and then kill him on foot as he charges or prepares to charge as a lion thus rounded up will generally do. I am peculiarly pleased to have you write the book, for it was under your guidance that I first tried lion-hunting.

Sincerely yours,

Theodore Roosevelt.

This hunting classic contains the following chapters:

Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
I. Lions and Lion Land
II. About Courage
III. Of the Courage of Lions
IV. Of Dangerous Game
V. Of Sport
VI. The Lion
VII. The Distribution of Lions
VIII. Lion Cubs and Tame Lions
IX. The Haunts of Lions
X. The Lion’s Voice and the Lion’s Eye
XI. Some Ways of Lions
XII. In the Lion’s Jaw
XIII. The Food and Drink of Lions
XIV. Lion-Hunting
XV. Hunting with Dogs and Hunting with Horses
XVI. Night-Shooting
XVII. Hints for the Beginner

This book published in 1914 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.