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Just POINT!

Series: Lonely Planet
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Just POINT! by Lonely Planet is a unique travel guide designed to help travellers communicate across language barriers. It provides a collection of illustrations and photos that allow users to simply point to the images to express their needs or desires. This visual approach is ideal for navigating different cultural settings without needing to know the local language.
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Format: Cards
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You might enjoy this handy guide if you're a globetrotter who thrives on interacting with others despite language barriers. This book is perfect for those who love to explore the world and communicate using simple illustrations and gestures, making travel an even more immersive experience.

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Just POINT!

Never again be lost for words abroad! Overcome any language barrier, wherever you travel. With 40+ full-colour cards with more than 500 entertaining icons on food and drink, accommodation, transport, fashion and sightseeing, this is the perfect gift for the discerning traveller.

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Travel comfort woes begone. Never again be lost for words. Overcome any language barrier, wherever you travel.

With Just Point! in your daypack, you'll be able to communicate all essential messages - and maybe a few non-essential ones, too! This handy-sized deck of 40+ full-colour cards, featuring more than 500 entertaining icons on food and drink, accommodation, transport, fashion, and sightseeing, all held together with a screw for easy flicking, is a guaranteed conversation starter!

When you're craving that skinny double-shot cappuccino with extra froth, Lonely Planet provides the answer in a language any barista will understand. Whether it's the yoga, pilates, or tai chi class you're looking for, just point to the icon to get your point across.

This is the perfect gift for the discerning traveller. These icons will make communicating with locals a breeze and are sure to raise a smile with their depictions of the amusing situations often encountered when exploring places far from home.

Just Point! to express:

  • Your dietary restrictions
  • How you like your steak cooked
  • How spicy you'd like your curry
  • What burger toppings you'd like
  • That you're in a rush to get the bill
  • That you're looking for the funicular
  • That there's a fly in your soup
  • What ice-cream topping you require
  • Your preferred garnishes for the perfect martini
  • Whether you want an espresso, a macchiato, or a cappuccino
  • Whether you need a twin or a double room
  • Whether you have a hairdryer in your room
  • That you've got the dreaded bed bugs in your hotel room
  • That you're looking for the cathedral
  • That romantic room-service options are required
  • Which all-important beauty treatment you need
  • How you'd like your beard trimmed
  • If your rental car has a flat tyre
  • Which direction to take if you're lost
  • And more!

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher, offering guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in the Favourite Travel Guide category.

'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times

'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)

Series: Lonely Planet

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760340636

Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Ltd

Format: Cards

Date Published: 01 April 2016

Country: Australia

Imprint: Lonely Planet Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 63.0mm

Weight: 218g

Pages: 40

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