Customer Reviews

The Book of Clouds

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We bought this book after having looked through it in a store -- we thought we'd look at several before purchasing to compare the images and text. After pouring over 5 books of comparable content, Day's book was the clear favorite because of the variety and quality of images, the skillful organization, and the easy writing style that accompanied the images.

An excellent book for those with an interest in weather -- and for an artist searching for the archetypes from which interpretations can be drawn.

Beautiful images!

I first saw this in a library and checked it out. I ended up buying my own copy. The photos are a wide variety and large. Some of them are slightly grainy, but not cheesy. Many of them are merely described as "clouds" instead of their classification, but the variety is what is significant for this volume. Not a must-have for meteorologists, but good book for weather hobbyists and certainly good for the coffee table.

The many photos making up the bulk of this book (some already seen on his popular website), are presented in a structured way that shows their features and beauty and significance. Dr John Day (know as cloudman) has been practising and teaching about meteorology for longer than most of us have been around. His text is brief, and his style is aimed both at beginners and those who already have some understanding and interest in weather. His chapter on the history of the naming of clouds make up the final section.

I purchased this book to reference for my painting. I found the variety and quantity of photos great, however the quality of the photos is questionable. Most of them are grainy (an artistic treatment?) and some appear to be low res images scaled up to fit the format of the book. The paper and print quality could be better, but if you read it to learn about clouds it would suffice.

I bought this book for a photo reference for painting.But it turned out to be more then that. It has wonderful photography and subject matter. You can tell John Day loves clouds. Nice work.

This book is informative. I learned things I probably should have remembered from high school science, but . . . It's easy to learn about the different cloud formations from the abundance of photos in the book. I enjoyed the book and would highly recommend it to anyone!

this book is fabulous and complete - the photos are amazing and the explanations easy to understand.

This book has terrific color shots of many different kinds of clouds and skies. It's an amazing book for using as an art reference and pretty much covers every kind of cloud you can imagine.

For many years, I lived in the beautiful state of Texas, with wide open skies wherever you'd look. After moving to a large city in an eastern state, suddenly the sky became something I had to look hard to find. Skyscrappers tend to block the view. This book not only gives me my sky views back, it tells me just what I am looking at. Thank you for the beautiful photos.

The book of Clouds are a very beautiful book, very interesting, and with illustrating pictures.
The only thing that is not so good, is the fact that the glue that should keep tha pages together is too weak. That causes the pages to fall out.