Rediscovering Hurricanes: Everything You Wanted to Know About Hurricanes but Was Never Told

With Foreword by Herbert Saffir, Rediscovering Hurricanes is an entertaining and informative book on hurricanes. It is a book that offers afascinating examination of Hurricanes and its impact on extensive areas of ourplanet. It also provides an introspective look at Hurricanes and how they haveinfluenced regional and world history. For example, were it not for several hurricanes, Spanish would not be the official language of Cuba, French would not be the official language of Guadeloupe, Japan mighthave been part of Chinatoday were it not for a hurricane which destroyed the Mongol fleet poised toattack Japan. This book goes into great details and provides some very interesting and fascinating stories of the major hurricanesof the North Atlantic from 1495 to Present. Italso includes several lists of notableAtlantic tropical cyclones and reasons for notability. It includes the major hurricanes but it also goes in-depth into some of the major historichurricanes such as, The Great Hurricaneof 1780, Katrina, Andrew, Mitch, Gilbert, Lake Okeechobee Hurricane, the GreatGalveston Hurricane of 1900 and many others. No book on hurricanes would becomplete without two controversial topics, Global Warming and El Niño. Most hurricaneauthors over the years have mainly concentrated on the negative aspects ofhurricanes without explaining the benefits of hurricanes. Well this bookdevotes a complete chapter on the benefits of hurricanes and why they areimportant to the earth's dynamic and complex ecosystem. Finally, this book alsofeatures information on unusual weather facts like, the first flight into ahurricane was based on a bet and not a carefully planned flight, or the firstweather radar was discovered by accident during the Second World War. If youare curious about hurricanes you definitely need to buy this book-you won't bedisappointed.