Baechtold's Best: Afghanistan: The Ultimate Visual Travel Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Claude Baechtold, Serge Michel, Paolo Woods, David Laufer
Publisher: Abrams Image
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1000472
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 88
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 6.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 081099223X
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.8104470222
EAN: 9780810992238
ASIN: 081099223X
Publication Date: April 1, 2006
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Product Description
Planning a trip to Afghanistan? Bring a Baechtold!
Baechtold's Best is a revolutionary concept in travel guides for both the adventurous traveler and the arm-chair variety. Created exclusively using images and maps, Baechtold introduces the traveler to the best of what each country has to offer. Most guides boast encyclopedic ambitions and fill their pages with lengthy descriptions. By contrast, Baechtold guides are created on the premise that one good photograph and an address are enough to point the intrepid traveler in the right direction.
Each guide consists of four categories of destinations (People, Nature, Art, and Things) accompanied by a map to get you there. For each subject, Baechtold offers a number of choices and then designates a "best" the country has to offer.
For Afghanistan a traveler can learn where to find the best field for picking poppy flowers, the sandstorm that packs the most punch, and the perfect watermelon stand. Included are not only the best hotels and restaurants, but the places where the skies are the bluest, the jeeps the rustiest, and the kids the cutest.
Both humorous and helpful, the Baechtold's Best are essential to every traveler aiming to see more of Afghanistan than what's on TV.
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 stupid August 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am doing research on a person from Afghanistan and I wanted to get a feeling for the country. The photos are repetitive -an example: 16 shots of cars. I have not gained any new insights to this country from this book.
 A great idea for a book July 22, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I loved this book. The photographers focused on the ordinary, rather than the idealized, and let's face it: when we travel we're going to be dealing with the ordinary.
I have not been to Afghanistan but a friend of mind has and when I showed him this book he liked it. This book gets the "look" of the place, warts and all. Of course, it is not a per se guidebook but more of a supplement to more tradional guides. I look forward to future books in this series.
 Wonderful and quirky, beautiful graphic design July 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great little book, perfect for a coffee table. An in-depth travel guide it is not, but nor is it intended to be. The photos are wonderful, and the design and concept are really imaginative. If you're looking for eye-catching graphic design, along with inspired visual perspectives of people, places, and things in Afghanistan, this is the book for you.
I look forward to more books from this upcoming series!
Afghanistan Junkie July 5, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am interested in everything Afghanistan. Although I have read many books about Afghanistan, I was looking for something to help me visualize the country and its people. Claude Baechtold groups pictures by themes and reveals the richness of the country from tiny villages to the middle of Kabul. This book is good for people who know something about the country and can appreciate the diversity of its people.
Amazing photo essay June 12, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although certainly not a traditional travel guidebook (the previous reviewer was correct in that regard), this book is a small but beautiful photo journal of Afghanistan.
The book contains photos organized by subject ("taxi," "teenager," "hotel room," "customized AK-47,"), taken throughout the country, with very brief notes indicating where photos were taken and their location on a map.
Recommended for fans of photography and contemporary graphic design.
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