Product Description

Picture dictionary for travellers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142406 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-23
• Original language: English, German, Spanish, French
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

Fun for travellers and non-travellers alike!
'Point it' manages to be both useful and diverting. Crammed with photographs of everything you might ever wish to point at in an effort to make yourself understood in a foreign country, it is also very small and light, ideal for that already overweight rucksack you are taking on your travels.

The book also makes interesting 'eye candy' and you could while away many hours on that cross-country train wondering in what situation you might need to simultaneously point at a sweet potato, a hypodermic and a large tree.

Those interested in photography and art might also find this book of interest. The book is a self contained and complete photography project that could serve as a starting point for your own work. Marvel at the still lifes and tableau that the photgrapher has laid out! Check out how fashions came and went when you see the cars, caravans, trousers and hairstyles!

All this entertainment and such a small, lightweight and cheap book!

Excellent idea, good little book
Such a cheap and small little book and such a good idea. Just come back from a trip to China and helped out a few times. The book is so small and thin unlike most travel stuff you buy and regret lugging round you never really notice it there. Pictures in the book cover most scenarios (in fact many more scenarios than you are ever likely to use) and could help you out. Most useful in countries where reading out from a phrase book isn't practical (complex tonal systems like far east mean people might not understand you) or people might not be literate and hence cannot read highlighted phrases in your phrase book, though you could equally use it to point at some bread in a french bakery.

perfect backpackers going away gift
I've bought this for a few friends as a going away present now - it is so small and light that they will easily be able to carry it with them, and even if they don't get much practical use out of it some of the pictures should give them a good laugh. Foolishly i didn't take a copy with me when i went to china and i genuinely think it would have helped on occasions when the language barrier was insurmountable, even with a phrasebook.