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This article is about the 19th-century ivory trader. For the American baseball player, see Trader Horne. For the British vocal duo, see Trader Horne (band).
Trader Horn (left) with Andrew Dakers, the literary agent for Ethelreda Lewis, in New York City in 1927.

Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn (born Alfred Aloysius Smith; 1861–1931) was an ivory trader in central Africa. He wrote a book, Trader Horn, detailing his journeys into jungles teeming with buffalo, gorillas, man-eating leopards, serpents and "savages". The book also documents his efforts to free slaves, meet the founder of Rhodesia, Cecil Rhodes, and liberate a princess from captivity.

A silent film exists of Horn,[1] as well as recent writings about him online [2] and a biography by Tim Couzens.[3]

Film adaptations

Complete title

  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius. Trader Horn; Being the Life and Works of Aloysius Horn, an "Old Visiter" ... the works written by himself at the age of seventy-three and the life, with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age and experience, taken down and here edited by Ethelreda Lewis; With a foreword by John Galsworthy. New York: Garden City Publishing, 1927, 302pp.[4]
Trader Horn in 1929

Later editions

  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (1938), Trader Horn : The Ivory Coast in the earlies : written at the age of seventy-three with such of the author's philosophy as is the gift of age and experience taken down and here, Penguin, retrieved 30 March 2015
  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda, (ed.) (1969), Trader horn : the Ivory Coast in the earlies, written at the age of seventy-three with such of the author's philosophy as is the gift of age and experience taken down and here, Howard Baker, ISBN 978-0-09-307940-4 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (1994), Trader Horn the Ivory Coast in the earlies, Association for the Blind of W.A, retrieved 30 March 2015
  • Horn, Alfred Aloysius; Lewis, Ethelreda (2002), Trader Horn : a young man's astounding adventures in 19th century equatorial Africa, Travelers' Tales ; Berkeley : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ISBN 978-1-885211-81-1

Other works

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.britishpathe.com/video/camera-interviews-aloysius-horn
  2. ^ Cutler, Ian (30 November 2013). "A Philosophy of Tramping — Trader Horn, Part 1". Cynical Reflections.
  3. ^ Couzens, Tim (1992). Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn. Wits University Press. ISBN 978-0869754160.
  4. ^ Horn, Alfred Aloysius (1927). Lewis, Ethelreda (ed.). Trader Horn. New York, NY: Simon and Shuster. pp. 257–258 – via Internet Archive.


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