The Cloud Collector's Handbook

Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9780340919439
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • : May 2009
  • : 142mm X 119mm X 14mm
  • : March 2018
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  • : Hardback
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  • : English
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  • : 138 colour photographs
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Barcode 9780340919439
9780340919439

Description

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.

Promotion info

From the author of the bestselling THE CLOUDSPOTTER'S GUIDE comes the essential aid for everyday cloudspotting

Author description

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society, a global organisation he set up to fight 'blue-sky thinking'. He is also the co-founder and creative director of The Idler magazine and author of the bestselling The Cloudspotter's Guide. He lives in London and Somerset.