The Cloud Collector's Handbook

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Chronicle Books, 29 àÁ.Â. 2011 - 144 ˹éÒ
Keep your head in the clouds with this whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky from an award-winning science writer.

In The Cloud Collector’s Handbook, cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun and fact-filled book features gorgeous full-color photographs that showcase various types of clouds, 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 comes from the bestselling author, BBC presenter, and founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
 

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How to Collect Clouds
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Cumulus
10
Stratus
16
Cirrus
22
nimbostratus
28
Notable Species Varieties
34
Castellanus
40
radiatus
46
Velum
52
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55
Virga
60
Tuba
68
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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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