Trader Horn - About the Author

Alfred Aloysius Horn was born in 1854, and as a teenager sailed from the U.K. to Africa where he died in1927. In between he lived a varied and colorful life. Amongst his many pursuits:
  • Ivory trader in Central Africa, journeying into jungles teaming with buffalo, gorillas, and man-eating leopards
  • Big game hunter – elephants, lions, and leopards
  • Gold and copper prospector
  • Scotland Yard Detective
  • Liberator of an Isorga princess
  • Distiller of prickly pear brandy
  • Admiral of a cannibal river fleet
  • First white man initiated into the Egbo
  • Mine-sweeper

    He became acquainted with Ulysses S. Grant and Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia. Later in life, he turned to simpler things and became a gridiron peddler and dealer in literary novelties.



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