Beautifully Scarce

Iranian-New Zealand artist Nabil Sabio Azadi’s travel book, For You The Traveller, is “probably the best guide book [The Huffington Post] has ever seen.” “It is available in a strictly limited edition of 200, and its scarcity speaks to everything that separates print books from digital. The content itself is so beautifully idiosyncratic and personal that it suggests a chart of the overriding emotions of its cities, whether talking about Pune in India, Copenhagen in Denmark, or Nakuru in Kenya. As if that weren’t enough, with each four-page recommendation is not only the name of its creator, a native in that city, but also their telephone number. Profits from its sale are donated to the charity Nouvelle Planète to fund the construction of five footbridges in the rural villages near Ambano, Madagascar.”