Evening Standard, London, February 17, 1999
"Help is finally at hand for frustrated tourists in London who don't speak a word of English or Brits abroad who are too lazy to learn the language. Instead of struggling with awkward pronunciations, all you have t o do, thanks to a revolutionary picture guide-book called Point It, is to point to a picture of what you want."
The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, January 31, 1999, London
"I will treasure my copy of Graf's little book."
City Life, Manchester, England
"Warranting 10/10 for imaginative travelling accessories, "point it" features page-upon-page of useful pictures."
The Times, London
"A simple but effective idea."
From the Publisher
As someone who has travelled to more than 40 countries, both in Europe and the non-Western world, I have found point it to be very useful and easy to carry. It has taken the suspense out of ordering dinner in remote areas of Burma. Instead of guessing what I'm ordering or trying to act like, say, a chicken, I can just point to a photograph of one. And I'm not sure that I ever would have gotten the "top sheet" I needed upriver in Borneo without it.
But point it is equally useful in Paris, Rome or Cancun - anyplace you don't speak the language and want to be sure that you can still communicate.
Book Description
point it is a passport sized traveler's picture dictionary containing photographs of 1,200 items grouped in to categories such as food and drink, accommodations, transportation, automobiles, entertainment, nightlife and health. Its contents reflect the things that a traveler could need anywhere in the world, with images ranging from rickshaws and samosas through croissants and cheese to every type of toilet in use in the world today. The first edition was published in 1992. Now in its sixth edition, i t has sold 450,000 copies to date. point it was used by the Dutch Olympic tea m in Nagano, Japan, by patients with linguistic difficulties and is standard issue for Swiss UN surveyors.
About the author
Dieter Graf is an architect and world traveler. point it reflects the experience he gained travelling in approximately 100 countries and spending three months going around the world by train.
