Catch Hold Of Trader Horn: A Young Mans Astounding Adventures In 19th Century Equatorial Africa Envisioned By Alfred Aloysius Horn Readily Available As Leaflet

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Very interesting adventures in Africa in the Last third of theth century, Its pretty much all true although as the author sometimes hints, he mightve coloured things up a little bit, Its written in a very interesting format because it has three introductions, and the last introduction is by Ethelreda Lewis, a British novelist who met Alfred Aloysius Smith, a.
k. a. Trader Horn quite by accident and convinced him to cowrite a book about his adventures in Africa with her, Each chapter consists of two parts: the first part is his narrative of his adventures, The second part is a conversation that he has with her that she reprints,
This was written inand modern readers will have to realize that some of the attitudes and language presented was typical of most European traders or explorers in Africa back in the last third of theth century.

Its also a little hard to follow at times, to keep up with all of the different characters and situation as he describes, and he sometimes repeats himself a little bit, particularly in the interviews with Lewis.

His adventures include journeying into jungles full of gorillas, leopards and elephants, saving an Isorga princess from sacred captivity and being the admiral of a cannibal river fleet.
So theres plenty of adventure,
Its a really interesting look back at how the world and how Africa was viewed in the Victorian/Edwardian era, Won this book, so I didn't pick it up, I enjoyed the read and movement between narrations and the flashbacks, I loved the character Alfred Aloysius a simple man in the looks selling kitchen stuff door to door but with a great past of adventure.
The action takes place in the jungle with a lot of action gorilla hunting, elephant attack, tribes war, princess kidnapping, etc, . . Made me think of Indiana Jones ancestor but with more muscles, . . I would like to rent tomovie, Remind me of Tarzan too, . . This is the stuff of legends the true story of the life of Trader Horn, Down on his luck in old age, Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader in central Africa, journeying into jungles teaming with buffalo, gorillas, and maneating leopards liberating an Isorga princess from captivity navigating treacherous rivers freeing slaves and meeting Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rhodesia.
Trader Horn is a vivid and unforgettable portrait of a vanished period in African history, “An amazing book . It casts a spell over one, ” The New York Times Book This book was the basis of thejungle adventure film of the same name, a film that was once extremely popular and influential, but now hard to even find.
As it turns out, the film was quite loosely based on the book, which varies so much that it's something of a wonder they kept the name.


The structure of the book is unusual, in that each chapter features Horn's own autobiographical writing about his time in lateth century Africa, and then Lewis' transcription of his talking to her about the portion of his memoirs he had just written.


It's hard to even imagine the sort of Africa that Aloysius Horn traveled, lived and worked in, an Africa at a time when gorillas and elephants were so numerous no one thought anything about shooting them, and it only appeals to the alien appeal of the setting.
Horn's narrative is extremely exciting, as

are all the adventures he hints at but never gets to write in his talks with Lewis.


The work is obviously one of his time, and the attitudes toward other races and ethnicities are hardly enlightened, but I was somewhat impressed with how much Horn seemed to genuinely love and respect African people, despite referring to them as savages, cannibals and boys throughout, and that he reserved his ugliest racism toward the French, of whom he never says anything approaching a kind word.
Essentially one long tall tale an old man is a telling of his supposed exploits as a trader in Africa in the late's.
Hard to tell what's real, what's exaggerated, and what's pure fiction, which is part of the fun, maybe, Sort of a "Commander McBragg" before there was such a cartoon, but without the pomp, I have no idea what, if anything, the editor, Ethelreda Lewis, to whom Mr, Horn sent his writings, did, other than add monologues he had when visiting with her, It's humorous without being selfaware,
This is more about reading a work from a begone day as an insight into that era rather than reading the work for its own merits.
Revealing story about lateth century European activity in Western Equatorial Africa, At this time, Europeans were not even aware of the existence of gorillas they were called dawnbreakers, There was great demand for rubber which was obtained from wild vines not trees, ivory and exotic hardwoods which were the main items of commerce Trader Horn sought.
Slaves were still being actively traded but Trader Horn did not participate in the slave trade, Trader Horn had to contend with crocodiles, rogue elephants and cannibals as he traded on the Ogowe River, His contemporaries, some of whom he met, were DeBrassa, Rhodes, du Chaillu, Stanley and Livingstone,

The genesis of the novel is poignant in that a man who had experienced all that he had, at the end of his life, was reduced to peddling homemade wire goods in Johannesburg where he encountered Ethelreda Lewis, who transcribed his stories.
he went from Joss house to Doss house,

I read "Trader Horn" after seeing the movie on Turner Classic Movies which fascinated me, I am now reading "Tramp Royal" which is a biography of Trader Horn by Tim Couzens and "From My African Notebook" by Albert Shweitzer who founded his hospital on Trader Horn's old stamping grounds.
It seems that Trader Horn was a Forrest Gump on steroids, having seen everything, met everyone and done everything, Pure bunkum, as far as I can tell, but lively entertainment all the same, An old scalliwag's life as a trader on the Ivory Coast, You be the judge of how much is real and how much is hyperbole, Alfred Aloysius Trader Horn June,June,was a journeyman, adventurer, writer, and ivory trader in central Africa, He wrote a book, Trader Horn, detailing his journeys, The book also documents his efforts to free slaves meeting the founder of Rhodesia Cecil Rhodes and liberating a princess from captivity.
He died in Whitsable, UK in, at the age of, Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn June,June,was a journeyman, adventurer, writer, and ivory trader in central Africa, He wrote a book, Trader Horn, detailing his journeys, The book also documents his efforts to free slaves meeting the founder of Rhodesia Cecil Rhodes and liberating a princess from captivity.
He died in Whitsable, UK in, at the age of, sitelink.