Cloud Collector's Handbook

Cloud Collector's Handbook

by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Cloud Collector's Handbook

Cloud Collector's Handbook

by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811875424
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 02/16/2011
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 310,052
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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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