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词条 Gavin Pretor-Pinney
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  2. Television appearances

  3. References

  4. External links

{{BLP refimprove|date=January 2014}}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.{{cn|date=January 2014}}

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)

Television appearances

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

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.convilleandwalsh.com/index.php/authors/author/gavin-pretor-pinney/|title=The Cloudspotter's Guide|publisher=Conville and Walsh}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://blog.ted.com/the-joy-of-cloudspotting-10-incredible-visions-in-clouds/|title=The joy of cloudspotting: 10 incredible visions in clouds|date=2013-07-16|work=TED Blog|access-date=2018-10-07|language=en-US}}
3. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/expert-in-idleness-is-surprise-winner-of-science-book-prize-6264095.html "Expert in idleness is surprise winner of science book prize"], The Independent, 18 November 2011
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/wavewatchers-companion/ |title=The Wavewatcher’s Companion}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7814714/The-Wavewatchers-Companion-by-Gavin-Pretor-Pinney-review.html |title=Daily Telegraph review | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 June 2010}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k99th |title=Cloudspotting |publisher=BBC}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y5jhx |title=The Secret Life of Waves |publisher=BBC}}

External links

  • Cloud Appreciation Society
  • The Idler magazine
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