Trader Horn

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: A Young Man's Astounding Adventures in 19th-Century Equatorial Africa (ISBN 1-885211-81-3), 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 life of Horn is written by Tim Couzens [3]

Film adaptations

Complete title

Trader Horn in 1929

Later editions

Other works

Notes

  1. http://www.britishpathe.com/video/camera-interviews-aloysius-horn
  2. Article about Horn
  3. Couzens, Tim (1992), Tramp royal : the true story of Trader Horn (Regular [pbk.] ed.), Ravan Press : Witwatersrand University Press, ISBN 978-1-86814-221-7

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