Gavin Pretor-Pinney

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Gavin Edmund Pretor-Pinney is a British author,^[1] known for his books The Cloudspotter's Guide and The Wavewatcher's Companion.

Pretor-Pinney attended Westminster School, the University of Oxford, and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He co-founded the magazine The Idler and founded the Cloud Appreciation Society in 2004.^[2] He grew up in West London and now also lives in Somerton, Somerset.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honours[]

• 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, winner, The Wavewatcher's Companion^[3]

Works[]

• The Cloudspotter's Guide (2006)^[1]
• The Cloud Collector's Handbook (2006)
• A Pig with Six Legs and Other Clouds (2007)
• The Wavewatcher's Companion (2010)^[4][5]
• The Ukulele Handbook (September 2013; Co-written with Tom Hodgkinson)
• A Cloud A Day (2019)

Television appearances[]

• Presented on BBC TV: Cloudspotting^[6]
• Appeared on BBC TV: The Secret Life of Waves^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• Cloud Appreciation Society
• The Idler magazine

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