Point It

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.