{"product_id":"9780761167570","title":"The Wicked Traveler","description":"Respond to Japanese Noh theater like a native:\u003ci\u003e Kazoku  sorrote no seppuku ga yokatta. (“I love the part where the whole family disembowels themselves.”) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeak to homicidal Parisian taxi drivers in a language they’ll understand: \u003ci\u003eOu avez-vous appris à conduire? En Italie? (“Where did you learn to drive? Italy?”) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscuss Italian olive oil with the proper degree of reverence: \u003ci\u003eUn assaggio ti dice che le olive sono maturate di fronte ad una cattedrale. (“One taste tells you the olives grew in full view of the cathedral.”) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEstablish privacy needs in Mexico:\u003ci\u003e Preferiría una habitación sin alacranes. (“I’d prefer a room without scorpions.”)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With seven titles and over 1.2 million copies in print, Howard Tomb’s Wicked phrase book series is the fiendishly irreverent—and very successful—collection that gives travelers the words they wish they could utter while, say, attempting to find the exit of the Louvre or facing a plate of fugu (poisonous blowfish) in Japan. Now, the five most popular Wicked books—\u003ci\u003eItalian, French, Japanese, German\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSpanish\u003c\/i\u003e— have been updated and compiled into \u003ci\u003eThe Wicked Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e. A$25 value for $8.95, it’s the ultimate impulse gift for anyone who’d like to know how to say silly things in five different languages. Because, as Howard Tomb writes in his new introduction: “Every country is different, but all foreign places have one thing in common: they’re weird.”","brand":"Workman Publishing Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077474795760,"sku":"9780761167570","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780761167570_p0.jpg?v=1769903891","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780761167570","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}