Text engl. - One of the early pioneers of photography, Linnaeus Tripe is celebrated for his illuminating photographs of notable architecture, monuments, landscape views and artifacts of India and Burma in the mid-1850`s. His photographs were meant to provide a new form of record for government officials as much as to satisfy the British public`s enthusiasm for unfamiliar cultures. The Tripe scholar and historian Janet Dewan has undertaken a remarkable work of scholarship. In addition to having established Tripe`s authoritative chronology, Dewan has provided a biography and has reproduced original documents that will provide a factual basis for future critical interpretation. Full descriptions and references for each of Tripe`s one thousand and sixty images are supplemented by commentary, maps and plans.“ (Publishers’ text). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 02.2010.