The Cloudspotter's Guide Paperback – 8 Mar. 2007

Great little book if you like clouds apparently it’s an interesting read. Bought as a gift and was well received.

If, like me, you wonder why on earth no one else is looking upwards at the glorious cloudscapes we have in this country then you will love this book. It's the most enthusiastic, informative and well written book on the subject that I am sure you will ever receive. Since I bought it it is a constant in my life and reinforces my delight in the subject no matter how often I dip into it.

If you don't know your clouds from your fog, this is the book for you. Lots of cloudy information and illustrations for you to bore your friends with next time you are out walking.Colour pictures of clouds may have been better, so loses 1 star.

This is the 2nd purchase of this book for me. The first one I lent to someone and haven't got it back!It's a lovely reference book to have when looking out at the sky and when seeing some interesting cloud formations. I always have it to hand in my conservatory.

Great informative book, everything clouds you ever need to know

Suffering from a severe (is there any other?) form of Man Flu, I picked this up and devoured it in two days. If I had wanted to write such a book I would have done just the same as Mr Pretor-Pinney using a mixture of science, religion, history, philosophy and art, well-written in a lively fashion and glued together with liberal dashes of humour. Starting with Chapter One, cumulus, my febrile brain was buffeted from children's drawings to John Constable to René Descartes to Hindu and Buddhist beliefs about elephants, learning in the process that a cumulus cloud weighs the same as eighty elephants, to lava lamps and then on and on. I felt rather like what poor Lt.-Col. William Rankin must have felt like, that is the exhilaration and not the pain, when he was obliged to bail out at 47,000 ft above a cumulonimbus in Chapter Two. Even the ostensibly boring stratus and the often frankly depressing nimbostratus managed to shine in these pages before I surged to the upper troposphere, with a detour to Billingsgate Market for the mackerel sky version of cirrocumulus, and beyond. A veritable tour de force.

Easy read. Information given in clear ,understandable manner.

Not just a load of old clouds. This book is insprirational - with science, art, music and fun. If the teachers at my school 50+ years ago had been able to put over their subjects as Mr P-P does his, I would have learned a great deal more than I did. I take these books about with me,(this one and the Cloud Collector's Handbook - it's such a cute little book), they are just the thing for trains, waiting rooms and bus queues. Of course, people may 'look at you funny' if you smile or even giggle whilst reading, or turn the book upside down to see a picture the other way up, but don't worry about that. I don't. I recommend both books.