diff --git a/docs/first_steps.rst b/docs/first_steps.rst
index 7f8d2770..d5b0fb56 100644
--- a/docs/first_steps.rst
+++ b/docs/first_steps.rst
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ pages with :meth:`document.Document.copy()`.  Finally, for ultimate control,
 
 .. [#] Pages in the same document do not always have the same size.
 
-See the :ref:`Python API` for details. A simple examples:
+See the :ref:`Python API` for details. A few random examples:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
@@ -435,6 +435,25 @@ See the :ref:`Python API` for details. A simple examples:
     document.copy(document.pages[::2]).write_pdf('odd_pages.pdf')
     document.copy(document.pages[1::2]).write_pdf('even_pages.pdf')
 
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    # Print the outline of the document.
+    # Output on http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/intro.html
+    #     1. Introduction to CSS 2.1 (page 2)
+    #       1. A brief CSS 2.1 tutorial for HTML (page 2)
+    #       2. A brief CSS 2.1 tutorial for XML (page 5)
+    #       3. The CSS 2.1 processing model (page 6)
+    #         1. The canvas (page 7)
+    #         2. CSS 2.1 addressing model (page 7)
+    #       4. CSS design principles (page 8)
+    def print_outline(bookmarks, indent=0):
+        for i, bookmark in enumerate(bookmarks, 1):
+            page = bookmark.destination[0]
+            print('%s%d. %s (page %d)' % (
+                ' ' * indent, i, bookmark.label.lstrip('0123456789. '), page))
+            print_outline(bookmark.children, indent + 2)
+    print_outline(document.make_bookmark_tree())
+
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