A Cloud a Day

By Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations from his extraordinarily popular Cloud Appreciation Society collection. Inspirational quotes and informative cloud facts accompany provocative and meditative images of the sky, encouraging readers to pause for a moment and look up. A beautifully illustrated book, A Cloud a Day makes a wonderful gift for dedicated or erstwhile cloudspotters—as for any of us with our heads lost in them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Nov 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781452181585

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.

Reviews for A Cloud a Day

[jphamilton-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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.