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The Cloud Collector's Handbook. By Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2009)

by Gavin Pretor-Pinney(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0340919434 (ISBN13: 9780340919439)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Sceptre

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 the Cloud Appreciation Society, and subsequently, this book. Its forever changed the way I look at clouds. I've learned so much more about the different types, and the acquisition of bonus points for collecting is both fun and hilarious.The book itself has a great way of presenting information, its both in awe of the clouds and often amusing, while also explaining the scientific facts behind different formations and good clues of how to spot them. The points system is a blast. The pictures are gorge... moreous.Its easily worth the money you spend on it and the weight in the backpack.
review 2: A very lovely book that I wish I could afford to purchase, instead of get from the library. I say this because the book is set up so that you can keep notes on which clouds you've seen where - collect them, basically! As I am a birder, this aspect of "listing" clouds appeals to me. I can go birdwatching and cloudwatching at the same time! Keep a yard list of clouds, just like I do birds! A ferry list! An airplane list! Travel list! Oooo, cloud twitchers?I wish there were more photos of each cloud type, and better descriptions of the differences between similar cloud types - side by side photo comparisons, for instance. But what there is in this slim volume is very good. A few pithy comments scattered here and there liven up the descriptions and made me smile. But not too many of them - just enough. less

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