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"A Cloud a Day" by Gavin Pratt-Pinney Publisher: Beijing Times Chinese Bookstore
"A Cloud a Day" by Gavin Pratt-Pinney Publisher: Beijing Times Chinese Bookstore
Description
Introduction
♥This book is hosting a gorgeous cloud spectacle♥
✿ Popularize 36 cloud types and 24 optical effects (twilight stripes, sun dogs, circumzenithal arcs, halos, sun pillars, 22-degree halos, northern/southern auroras, red elves...)
✿This book contains about 370 high-definition photos of clouds, bringing a magnificent cloud spectacle. (Photos taken around the world, such as: Iceland | Denmark | the United States | Britain | France | Belgium | Germany | Spain | Switzerland | Australia | Ireland | South Africa..., and also photos of Venus/Jupiter/Mars clouds and related weather taken from multiple probes, satellites, and Mars rovers of the International Space Station and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)).
✿Introducing 41 artists' cloud, sky, or nature-themed artworks (Mi Youren | Katsushika Hokusai | Van Gogh | Edward Hopper...)
✿ Includes descriptions or opinion passages about nature in many literary works (Shakespeare's "The Tempest", Carl Sandburg's "The Fog", Shelley's "Queen Mab", Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora"...)
✌Bonus comes with an exclusive editorially curated ◤Clouds from a Long, Long Time Ago◢ themed booklet, which contains more than 40 pictures of clouds from the 1890 "Cloud Atlas" and the 1930 "International Cloud Atlas", presenting readers with clouds of different textures from the late 19th century and early 20th century!