Thomas Alexander Barns

Thomas Alexander Barns FZS FES (4 June 1881 – 4 March 1930), known in his private life as Alexander Barns, was an English businessman, explorer, big game hunter, author, artist, naturalist and lecturer connected with the opening up of Central Africa by Europeans in the early 20th century.

The amateur entomologist James John Joicey commissioned Barns to collect specimens of lepidoptera in Africa on his behalf. Provided by Wikipedia

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   Across the great craterland to the Congo : a sequel to "The wonderland of the eastern Congo" : describing a journey of exploration and research to the land of the giant craters in...

   by Barns, Thomas Alexander, 1880-
   Published 1924

   New York : A. A. Knopf, 1924.

   276 p., [66] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

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   An African Eldorado, the Belgian Congo

   by Barns, Thomas Alexander, 1880-
   Published 1926

   London, Methuen & Co., Ltd. [1926]

   xv, 229, [1] p. front., plates, ports., maps (part fold.) 23 cm.

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