In the track of the troops : a tale of modern war
R. M. Ballantyne's 1881 juvenile adventure novel In the Track of the Troops, published in London by James Nisbet & Co., is a boys' tale of war set in Turkey and printed by T. and A. Constable. The wood-engraved pictures show a rifle battle with massed troops on a hillside, a sailing ship foundering in heavy surf beside a small boat, and a ragged running figure on a rocky slope, all in dense hatched line that suits designers wanting dramatic military or seafaring reference.
