Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
John Prebble

Born: June 23, 1915
Died: January 30, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: John Edward Curtis Prebble was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.
Known for:
- The Highland Clearances (1963)
- Culloden (1961)
- Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre (1961)
- The Darien Disaster (1968)






