Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Lesley Blanch

Born: June 6, 1904
Died: May 6, 2007 (aged 102)
Bio: Lesley Blanch was an English writer, historian and traveller.
Known for:
- The Wilder Shores of Love (1954)
- The sabres of paradise (1960)
- Journey Into The Mind's Eye (1968)
- Pavilions of the heart (1974)
- The nine-tiger man (1965)