Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cylcones Review

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Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cylcones ReviewThis book had a great deal of promise as a valuable research tool for hurricanes. Unfortunately, it is so full of typographic errors, grammatical faux pas, and incorrect information that it becomes a dangerous book to have been published. It looks like this book published by "Facts on File" is full of facts unchecked.
Meteorologically, and common sense-wise, this work fails in almost every conceivable way. It talks about storms that never existed (i.e. Larry of 1984 (an error from page 212)...the name is on that 1985 season's list and has never been used). Elena was ascribed the year 1965, even though storms of that name existed in 1979 and 1985 (error on page 105, yet correct on page 109). Time travel is realized by the storm incorrectly dated as October 29, 1893 which destroys a Lightship two months prior to its inception (page 242 error)! A Louisiana tropical storm from June 1912 is incorrectly dated as 1812 (error on page 216). And the errors go on and on.
If they had run the book through a simple spell/grammar check, it would have been much better. Some errors even an elementary school student wouldn't make. Take for example a passage from page 50 (extra comma):
...the hurricane dropped 7 inches of rain on the state's, southwest portion, spawning flash floods...
After talking in one paragraph about three 1860 hurricanes that struck Louisiana, this line follows (page 215):
A similar series of triple strikes was further witnessed in 1860 when three large hurricanes came ashore Louisiana between August 11 and October 3.
It is stunning that this book even went to print.
Despite excessive errors, there is some good information in this book. However, only people with significant knowledge about weather and hurricanes would be able to separate the facts from the faults. Maybe when an editor takes hold of this book, it will be of more valueEncyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cylcones Overview

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