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    A Cloud A Day

    By Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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    The stresses of the digital world mean that it's more important than ever to engage with the natural world. The sky is the most dramatic and evocative aspect of nature and looking up at the clouds is always good for the soul. Ever-changing and ephemeral, clouds reflect the shifting moods of the atmosphere in limitless compositions and combinations.

    Gavin Pretor-Pinney started the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2005. Since then, he's been encouraging people to 'look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and always remember to live life with your head in the clouds.' Membership to the Society now includes over 50k cloudspotters. Together, they capture and share the most remarkable skies, from sublime thunderstorms and perfect sunsets to hilarious object shaped clouds.

    A Cloud A Day is a beautifully illustrated book containing 365 skies selected by the Cloud Appreciation Society. There are photographs by sky enthusiasts around the world, satellite images and photographs of clouds in space, as well as skies depicted by great artists over the centuries. The clouds are accompanied by enlightening explanations, fascinating snippets of cloud science, poetry and uplifting quotations.

    The perfect dip-in-and-out book for anyone who wants to de-stress and reconnect with nature, A Cloud A Day will inspire you to open your eyes to the everyday beauty above and to spend a moment each day with your head in the clouds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBatsford
    Release dateOct 10, 2019
    ISBN9781849946315
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    A Cloud A Day
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    Gavin Pretor-Pinney

    Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society and author of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Cloud Collector's Handbook. He also co-founded the Idler, a magazine that defends the noble art of doing nothing. Gavin loves watching waves in every form, whether on the seashore or around a football stadium, and has learned to enjoy their subtle and beautiful progress through our lives. He lives in Somerset.

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    • 5/5
      Anyone who ever looks to the sky would find this a beautiful and informative book. The photography is the most obvious beauty of the book, and while the text is smaller, it is very informative, inspiring, and clever. The original writing is funny and unique, while the quotes and poetry are very inspiring … like a sky full of clouds. Chronicle Books has worked with the Cloud Appreciation Society (more than 46,000 members) and all the fine photos are from their members from around the world. The editor of the book, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, is the founder of the society, and one of his quotes I loved so much, was about how we live in the sky, “not beneath it, but within it.” For people who want to know even more of the science involved with clouds, they should check out his other books, The Cloudspotter’s Guide and The Cloud Collector’s Handbook. The world of clouds has always fascinated me, and some of the beautiful pages of this book are of famous artists showing how inspired they were by these bits of water, ice, and sunlight above us. This is a very special book, but I want to tell everyone, get outside, and look to the sky. You certainly won’t see all the rare and the geographic-specific clouds shown in this book, but it will be nature at some of its most stunning. I find myself thinking about all the people who were living out their busy lives under some of these incredible clouds—without ever looking up.