Trader Horn (Paperback)

1927. With a foreword by John Galsworthy. Being the life and works of Alfred Aloysius Horn 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. Memoirs of the traveler, trader, and adventurer who lived a varied and colorful life. He was an ivory trader in Central Africa, a big game hunter, a gold and copper prospector, a Scotland Yard detective, the liberator of an Isorga princess, a distiller of prickly pear brandy, an admiral of a cannibal river fleet, the first white man initiated into the Egbo, and a minesweeper. Later in life, he turned to simpler things and became a gridiron peddler and dealer in literary novelties.