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THE WEATHER FACTOR
By Erik Durschmied, (Hodder & Stoughton, 2000), L14.99, 307 pages
No-one who has listened anxiously to the shipping weather forecast on an imperfectly spluttering radio whilst leaning over a damp chart table in the swaying saloon of a small yacht can fail to be attracted by the theme of Erik Durschmied's The Weather Factor. Sub-titled How Nature Has Changed History, this is a book which promises to interest the operational meteorologist as much as the military historian. At a certain level it achieves that, but the meteorology and earth science is couched in inexact terminology that will annoy students of environmental processes. The...