Reise um die Welt
Reise um die Welt is a German travel narrative by Friedrich Gerstäcker, published by Wigand in 1847 for a general German reading public. Its engravings are rotated sideways on the page and show armoured knights in combat, a crowd of figures in a dim interior, and a tropical scene of foliage and flowers with a reclining figure, giving a designer dense hatched black-and-white textures and dramatic diagonal compositions to draw on.
