An honorary research fellow in History at the University of Aberdeen, Daniel MacCannell UE FRGS has written nine books, including Oxford: Mapping the City (2016) and How to Read Scottish Buildings (2015).
An excellent job of highlighting examples from around the world, including South America, Asia, and Africa. The author's writing style and frequent use of primary sources and pictures create an easy to follow and enjoyable narrative. . . . Extensively researched and sourced. . . . Recommended. --Choice Rainbows, often depicted as a simple arc of six or seven colors, are complex visual phenomena that have fascinated humans since ancient times. In this nicely illustrated guide, historian MacCannell starts off with a brief chapter describing the science behind rainbows and their many different manifestations. He moves on to deeper discussions of the history of their scientific study and of their mythic, artistic, cultural, and political significance. --Cynthia Cummings Physics Today