This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.

1. Real Men / Savage Nature: The Rise of African Big Game Hunting
2. 'The Bitter Thraldom of Dependence': Negotiating the Hunt
3. Guns and Reeds: Africanizing British Big Game Hunting
4. Lady Lion Hunters: An Imperial Femininity
5. 'To Make a Fetish of Roughing It': Reimagining Hunting in the Age of Safaris, 1900-1914

Angela Thompsell is Assistant Professor of British and African History at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, USA.