Foreword * List of Illustrations * Glossary * Introduction: Why the Animal? Or, Can the Subaltern Roar, and Other Risky Questions. Some Theoretical Frameworks * Animals, Children, and Street Urchins * Herein the British Nimrod May View a New and Arduous Species of the Chase: Hunting narratives 1757–1857 * Our Rightful Claim to Superiority as a Dominant Race: Hunting narratives 1857–1947 * Animals, Humans, and Natural Laws: Kipling and Forster * Making Kingdoms Out of Beasts * Notes * Illustration Credits * Select Bibliography * Index