Baechtold's Best: Afghanistan: the Ultimate Visual Travel Guide

by Claude Baechtold

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 water

88 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

Reviews

[Vaishali · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliant compilation taking you into the country's wildlands... profiling beards, carts, pets and rickshaws :) Two-page spreads have photo grids on the left side, and a picto-essay on the right.

The most beautiful pix? Vast red poppy fields.

The saddest? Barefoot, bleak-faced children.

The most impressive? Sharply striking, crisp uniforms of some very regal generals.

And the most hopeful are the uber-stylish teens... hip and cutting-edge in any nation :)


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[John Yelverton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really a book, nor even a coffee table book, but the pictures are very striking.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Gargbage

[Sharm Alagaratnam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant premise!