The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Chronicle Books, 29 àÁ.Â. 2011 - 144 ˹éÒ

The perfect incentive for keeping your head in the clouds, The Cloud Collector's Handbook is a whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky. Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and useful book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase a new type of cloud on every spread, from fluffy cumulus to the super rare horseshoe vortex to the wispy noctilucent clouds that hang at the fringes of space. Sure to be a hit with both aspiring and seasoned cloud gazers, this clever handbook will have everyone looking up.

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LibraryThing Review

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I've never been accused of having my head in the clouds, but I should have been because it's one of my favorite things to do-- especially during the summer here in the Sonoran Desert. I knew all the ...

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• How to Collect Clouds: 8
• Cumulus: 10
• Stratus: 16
• Cirrus: 22
• nimbostratus: 28
• Notable Species Varieties: 34
• Castellanus: 40
• radiatus: 46
• Velum: 52
• you might well think that cloud collecting sounds like a ridiculous idea: 55
• Virga: 60
• Tuba: 68

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, a global organization that fights blue-sky thinking. He is also the co-founder and creative director of The Idler magazine and author of the best-selling The Cloudspotter's Guide. He lives in Somerset, England.

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• ¼Ùéáµè§: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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• ¼Ùé¨Ñ´¾ÔÁ¾ì: Chronicle Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1452105189, 9781452105185
• ¤ÇÒÁÂÒÇ: 144 ˹éÒ