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The Cloud Collector’s Handbook
- Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
- Category: Non-fiction Art / Illustrated Animals / Environment
- Publisher: Sceptre
- Pub date: 11 June 2009
- Length: 112 pages
About The Cloud Collector’s Handbook
National Bestseller
A lovely book, the sort that everybody should have in the car or on the kitchen windowsill
- DAILY TELEGRAPH
His style is genial, his enthusiasm uplifting and his book nothing less than a subtle but glorious mantra for a way of life.
- METRO
Eloquent and engaging . . . Beautiful illustrations, photos and diagrams throughout, which show how spectacular the sights can be for the ardent cloudspotter
- FINANCIAL TIMES
THE CLOUD COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK fits into the pocket, allowing cloudspotters to identify cloud formations anytime and anywhere. All the common cloud types are represented, as are many of the rare ones, each fully described and illustrated with a range of photographs. Not only is THE CLOUD COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to be able to identify and understand every cloud that floats by, it also caters for the competitive cloudspotter. Points are awarded for each cloud type identified – the rarer the cloud, the greater points – and there’s space to fill in where and when it was sighted.
Beautifully designed, in colour throughout, and full of the humour that made THE CLOUDSPOTTER’S GUIDE so engaging, the HANDBOOK is the essential reference for anyone with their head in the clouds.
About the Author
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the author of THE CLOUDSPOTTER’S GUIDE, the inaugural publication of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which spent months in the UK top 10 bestseller lists. Aside from this, he is the co-founder and creative director of the Idler, a magazine now in its twelfth year and described variously as ‘the world’s finest periodical’ (Time Out) and ‘truly inspired’ (Sunday Telegraph). THE IDLER BOOK OF CRAP TOWNS was published in September 2003, spent months in the bestseller lists and spawned several equally successful follow-ups. In 1996 Gavin was responsible, along with three other partners, for starting the UK revival of the infamous alcoholic spirit absinthe, and was the first to import the drink into the UK after an eighty-year ban. Besides writing for Harpers & Queen and the Evening Standard, Gavin has co-presented a Channel 4 programme about Action Man and been assistant producer on another documentary about cocktails.