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Book Review of Trader Horn: A Young Man's Astounding Adventures in 19Th-Century Equatorial Africa (Travelers' Tales)

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A true tale of thrills and danger, wild beasts and savages in Central Africa in the late 19th century. Down on his luck in o0ld age, trader Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader, journeyting into jungles teeming with elephants, gorillas, and leopards, rescuing an Isorga princesds from captivity, freeing slaves, meetinjg Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia.