Don't Get Me Wrong!: The Global Gestures Guide

by Julia Grosse, Judith Reker, Florian Bong-Kil Grosse (Illustrator)

Beautifully designed by a team of award-winning art book designers, Don't Get Me Wrong: The Global Gestures Guide is a highly entertaining, useful and obscenity-free guide to the surprising world of everyday hand gestures. Two foreign correspondents have gathered everyday gestures from around 50 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe. The results, beautifully captured in nearly 80 color photographs with only a minimum of text, are often amusing and always instructive. A cool and compact travel companion.

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 2010

About the author

Born in 1976 in Mainz, Germany.
Lives and works now in London, GB.

Reviews

[Luaba · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read, funny and informative, for anyone going to a new culture for the first time. THis book is the reference book you must read.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting. I can now be nasty to people without saying a word.

[Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book could be so much better. The photographs are amazing and the book is clear and easy to understand. But I'm inclined to think this book is more for entertainment than information.

Did they really need 20 pages to show hand gestures for counting?
An index would he helpful too. The book has the relevant countries next to the photographs but what if I was just visiting Egypt? I want to single out all the Egyptian gestures and be prepared.
And lastly, I'd expect the book to have more gestures. Like, is that it? Are those the only gestures in the world?
I think the book is only good for coffee tables.

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm putting this on my apartment coffee table. It's a fun, beautiful book that can be flipped through quickly and you even carry something away.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting but rather limited.