From what I can see, there is no vertex path that goes to 1 so why is it strongly connected? Shouldnt every vertex be reachable from every other vertex? In this picture the 1 is not reachable.

From what I can see, there is no vertex path that goes to 1 so why is it strongly connected? Shouldnt every vertex be reachable from every other vertex? In this picture the 1 is not reachable.

Even if it is only an edge from 4 to 1 the graph is strongly connected so your book might actually be right about "no loops"