A review by roba
The Wavewatcher's Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

2.0

I didn't this guy's book about clouds – which I seem to remember being really big – because I'd hate to have my brain go "That's a columbo dentata" every single time I look at the sky, but I saw this wave one in Oxfam and thought it would be safe because I don't live in the sea. I regret that decision because Gavin – Gavin – is one of those pop science writers who feels there has to be a 'joke' every other sentence or the reader will I don't know just drop the book on the floor and wander off in front of a car. There are a few interesting stretches, and halfway through I was thinking, "At least he hasn't used the word 'boffin'," but then on the very next page... There are CBeebies factual programmes that are less pandering that this.