Book review: The Cloudspotter's Guide : Fit of the vapours

From: The Scotsman | Date: May 13, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Sceptre, 300pp, GBP 12.99

CALL THE EXOTICALLY NAMED Gavin Pretor-Pinney a man with his head in the clouds and he would undoubtedly take it as a compliment, pausing only to make sure you knew which type - Stratocumulus, Cirrostratus, the thick, grey and featureless everyman of the cloud world, Nimbostratus, or perhaps the mighty, rumbustious, astonishingly powerful and on its day devastating, Cumulonimbus.

If you were to accuse him of living in cloudcuckooland he would tell you of that word's Greek origin - Nephelokokkygia, and who am I to ...

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