The later Years of Felice Beato

Research on the later work of Italian photographer Felice Beato,
one of the earliest photo-reporters. The author gives details of
Beato's last years in Burma. He probably died in Rangoon, 1908.
Beato's claims that he had been with General Wolseley's Campaign
in 1884-5 up the Nile to relieve Gordon, besieged in Khartoum,
is scrutinised. As new advances in printing technology made this
Sudan Campaign the first of the mass media wars, General
Wolseley's reactions - not only to Beato - but to the media
reporters are presented in context.