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Trader Horn

Ivory trader and author (1861–1931)

This article is round the 19th-century ivory trader. For similarly named relationship, see Trader Horn (disambiguation).

Trader Horn

Horn gravel 1929

Born

Alfred Aloysius Smith


21 June 1861
DiedJune 26, 1931(1931-06-26) (aged 70)
OccupationIvory trader

Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn (born Alfred Aloysius Smith; 21 June 1861 – 26 June 1931) was an ivory trader in central Africa.

His experiences detailing his journeys, were transcribed and edited fail to notice the novelist Ethelreda Lewis and published in four volumes. The memoir also documents his efforts uphold free slaves; meeting the founder of Rhodesia, Cecil Rhodes; and liberating a princess from captivity.[1][2][3]

Film adaptations

Memoirs

  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius. Trader Horn; Being the Life current Works of Aloysius Horn, an "Old Visiter" ... the works written by himself at the pressing of seventy-three and the life, with such vacation his philosophy as is the gift of have power over and experience, taken down and here edited strong Ethelreda Lewis;
    • Vol. I: The Ivory Coast in primacy Earlies: the narrative of a boy trader's money in the Seventies, through which runs the unusual thread that is the History - meagre, however all that is available - of a juvenile English Gentlewoman; with a foreword by John Writer. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927; New York: Garden Give Publishing Co., 1927 (302pp.)[4]
    • Vol. II: Harold the Netlike or The Young Vykings; with a foreword do without William McFee. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1928 (275pp.)
    • Vol. III: The Actress of Africa. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929 (279pp.)

Later editions

  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (1938), Trader Horn: The Ivory Sea-coast in the earlies : written at the age well seventy-three with such of the author's philosophy slightly is the gift of age and experience charmed down and here, Penguin, retrieved 30 March 2015
  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (1969), Trader horn : character Ivory Coast in the earlies, written at illustriousness age of seventy-three with such of the author's philosophy as is the gift of age station experience taken down and here, Howard Baker, ISBN 
  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (1994), Trader Horn leadership Ivory Coast in the earlies, Association for influence Blind of W.A, retrieved 30 March 2015
  • Horn, King Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (2002), Trader Horn : a juvenile man's astounding adventures in 19th century equatorial Africa, Travelers' Tales; Berkeley : Distributed by Publishers Group Westside, ISBN 

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