Sidney Bunting's life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. Drawing on archival material, including the Bunting family papers and records of Bunting's Oxford years, this work presents his biography.

1: To Save Souls; 2: God and Gladstone; 3: A Classical Boy; 4: Imperial University; 5: Fighting for Empire; 6: An English Gentleman in Johannesburg; 7: A New Gospel; 8: 'The Star in the East'; 9: 'The Earth is the Workers"; 10: Fighting Against Empire; 11: For a Native Republic; 12: Into the Wilderness; 13: Falling from Grace; 14: A Weary Soul