Trader Horn
{{Short description|Ivory trader and author (1861–1931)}}
{{about|the 19th-century ivory trader| similarly named articles|Trader Horn (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Alfred Aloysius Horn (sic) cropped from larger photo with english sheep dog.JPG
| caption = Horn in 1929
| birth_name = Alfred Aloysius Smith
| birth_date = 21 June 1861
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|06|26|1861|06|21}}
| 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/camera-interviews-aloysius-horn|title = Camera Interviews - Aloysius Horn}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cynicalreflections.net/2013/11/a-philosophy-of-trampingtrader-horn.html |date=30 November 2013 |title=A Philosophy of Tramping — Trader Horn, Part 1 |last=Cutler |first=Ian |website=Cynical Reflections}}{{cite book|last1=Couzens|first1=Tim|title=Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn|date=1992|publisher=Wits University Press|isbn=978-0869754160}}
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.){{cite book |last=Horn |first=Alfred Aloysius |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=Ethelreda |year=1927 |title=Trader Horn |url=https://archive.org/details/traderhornbeingl00horn |url-access=registration |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York, NY |pages=[https://archive.org/details/traderhornbeingl00horn/page/257 257]-258 |via=Internet Archive}}
- 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.)
Later editions
- {{Citation | author1=Horn, Alfred Aloysius | author2=Lewis, Ethelreda | title=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 | publication-date=1938 | publisher=Penguin | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21384443 | accessdate=30 March 2015 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Horn, Alfred Aloysius | author2=Lewis, Ethelreda | title=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 | publication-date=1969 | publisher=Howard Baker | isbn=978-0-09-307940-4 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Horn, Alfred Aloysius | author2=Lewis, Ethelreda | title=Trader Horn the Ivory Coast in the earlies | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Association for the Blind of W.A | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10347009 | accessdate=30 March 2015 }}
- {{Citation | author1=Horn, Alfred Aloysius | author2=Lewis, Ethelreda | title=Trader Horn : a young man's astounding adventures in 19th century equatorial Africa | year=2002 | publication-date=2002 | publisher=Travelers' Tales; Berkeley : Distributed by Publishers Group West | isbn=978-1-885211-81-1 }}
Other works
- [http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1289579?q=trader+horn&c=people list of publications and editions]
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Trader Horn |sopt=t}}
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