Trader Horn Explained

Birth Name:	Alfred Aloysius Smith
Birth Date:	21 June 1861
Occupation:	Ivory trader

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

His memoirs detailing his journeys, were transcribed and edited by the novelist Ethelreda Lewis and published in three volumes. The memoir also documents his efforts to free slaves; meeting the founder of Rhodesia, Cecil Rhodes; and liberating a princess from captivity.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Film adaptations

• Trader Horn (1931)
• Trader Horn (1973)

Memoirs

• 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;
  • Vol. I: The Ivory Coast in the Earlies: the narrative of a boy trader's adventures in the Seventies, through which runs the strange thread that is the History - meagre, but all that is available - of a young English Gentlewoman; with a foreword by John Galsworthy. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927; New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1927 (302pp.)^[4]
  • Vol. II: Harold the Webbed or The Young Vykings; with a foreword by William McFee. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1928 (275pp.)
  • Vol. III: The Waters of Africa. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1929 (279pp.)

Other works

• list of publications and editions

Notes and References

1. Web site: Camera Interviews - Aloysius Horn.
2. Web site: A Philosophy of Tramping — Trader Horn, Part 1 . 30 November 2013 . Cutler . Ian . Cynical Reflections.
3. Book: Couzens. Tim. Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn. 1992. Wits University Press. 978-0869754160.
4. Book: Horn, Alfred Aloysius . Lewis . Ethelreda . 1927 . Trader Horn . registration . Simon and Schuster . New York, NY . 257-258 . Internet Archive.