Notes

Trader Horn (real name Aloysius Smith) was a great wanderer, especially in Africa and North America. His adventures were recorded by the novelist Ethelreda Lewis and their publication was a worldwide sensation. Many of his tales sounded so outlandish that they were regarded as fiction by many commentators, but they have since been shown to be 99% true. He died in 1931.

The extraordinary story of the literary cooperation between a housewife and a gentleman of the road, a settler and a nomad, has been fully documented by Tim Couzens in his book Tramp Royal: The True Story of Trader Horn.

Provenance

Commissioned by Tim Couzens