Richard Hamblyn

Author of The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

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Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 & is a graduate of the universities of Essex & Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. He lives & works in London. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies … (more)

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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language… 299 copies, 8 reviews

The Cloud Book 95 copies, 1 review

Extraordinary Clouds 43 copies, 1 review

Terra: Tales of the Earth: Four Events That Changed the World 36 copies, 3 reviews

The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas 30 copies

The Met Office Pocket Cloud Book 20 copies

Extraordinary Weather: Wonders of the Atmosphere from Dust Storms to… 12 copies

Tsunami: Nature and Culture 11 copies

Clouds: Nature and Culture (Earth) 9 copies

Data Soliloquies 6 copies, 1 review

The Sea: Nature and Culture (Earth) 4 copies

The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition: How to Understand the Skies 1 copy

'Saved by the plague' in TLS 5415, 12 Jan 2007 [review of Ruddiman's… 1 copy

Kevin Erskine: Supercell 1 copy

Nuages - Le guide d'identification 1 copy

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The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, The First Three Years,… (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews

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I am an environmental writer and historian, with a particular interest in the cultural cross-currents that flow between the sciences and the humanities. I was born in 1965 and grew up in Truro, Cornwall; Kingston, Jamaica; and Hastings, East Sussex (my adopted father was a fisheries biologist – hence the maritime locations).

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