Seven Centuries, Badly Edited

I have in my hands a volume which should have been a very good book. This tome is a 700-year history of Atlantis, from its days as an early pirate colony mercantile stopover (see appropriate etymology here) to its days as a global city and light of the south.

The choice of material is excellent. The layout is fine. The format is accessible. The whole enterprise is digestible. But the one big problem is the editing. Whoever edited this book was not very concerned about typos and grammar; was not very concerned about style and vigor of expression.

For example:

"We hope that this long-sighted view of the Atlantean past will provide a corrective perspective to the myopic view of what is Atlantis after 1965."

Dire, dire, bad, bad, stuff. Attempted joke, major fail. And 'post-1965 Atlantis' would sound so much better than the clunky 'what is Atlantis after 1965.' It's like that all over the place; this quote was taken from the preface.

I very much wanted to like this book. I am afraid that I can't.