Largely unknown to readers today, Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century pastoral romance Arcadia was long considered one of the finest works of prose fiction in the English language. Whether traversing the Himalaya, being swept to 20,000ft inside a storm cloud and surviving, or simply the sheer fun of thermalling like a bird to the clouds, the stories convey the joys and challenges of this unique sport, which is enjoyed by tens of thousands of people worldwide. One said, “Unfortunately the prose style starts to become very annoying from quite early on, especially the childish anthropomorphism (this cloud is ‘the Darth Vader of clouds’, others are ‘lazy’ or like members of a street gang) and the lame jokes become very irritating.

A wide-ranging meditation on the many means we have employed to cope with the struggles of existence—from navigation to farming, meteorology to Google— The Marvelous Clouds shows how media lie at the very heart of our interactions with the world around us. It is full of playful poems, inspiring, anarchic illustrations, and guides to all of the different aspects of clouds that you could want to know about. It is as if the lamp knew and shared in the silence that lies at the heart of the book, beneath all the eager little words. This is a lovely, gentle story about friendship, family and grief, written and printed in a dyslexia friendly format.For those that enjoy travel and cloud spotting, they keep a copy at home, but they also pack it up with them when they travel.

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Taking this disclaimer as its title, this meditative book by Kristina Jurotschkin brings together images from her photographic archive made in various places across Europe over numerous years. Eisendrath works partly to illuminate Sidney’s famous but rarely read 16th-century romance, and partly to examine what retrospection is and what it (and also literature) might be for. Even though my Four insists that “clouds are boring,” I almost got him to listen to this whole book without much complaint. There are lovely asides on the magic of seminar discussion, on Eisendrath’s introduction to rhythm and its relation to style through childhood games of double-dutch, on reading at night by lamplight. Conversant with the philosophical traditions and with the ongoing debates in Germany, where this emerging discipline took its origin, his epistemological realism overcomes the conventional positions of the ‘linguistic turn’ and of ‘constructivism’ with a fresh and truly inspired unfolding of intuitions ranging from Martin Heidegger's ‘fourfold’ to the Emersonian philosophy of nature.