Books by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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review 1: Written for people who are afraid of non-fiction. I had to give up after about two chapters. Imagine yourself listening to a friend's uncle rambling about what waves mean to him personally, after you mistakenly let said friend borrow your vehicle to run an entire afternoon's wo...
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review 1: There are the making of a lovely little book in here, with a little stern editing. The problem is that Pretor-Pinney seems to think that waves of the wet variety aren't meaty enough a topic to fill a whole book, so he expands his scope to include waves of all kinds. On the one ha...
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review 1: Cloud collecting is my favorite hobby. I've always enjoyed watch the clouds, always considered myself a bit of a wonderbug, and have always had more pictures of clouds than people on my camera. Then one day when I was researching a supernumerary rainbow I had seen I came across t...