Daniel MacCannell UE FRGS is an Aberdeen University-trained historian and Army Cadet Force instructor at HMS Flying Fox in Bristol. He has written extensively about the histories of smuggling, cartography, news, royalism, and architecture, and in a former life was hired to pen a series of Pink Panther cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also a leading editor of advanced academic work written in English by speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. This is his ninth nonfiction book.