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.
Richard Proenneke
Born: May 4, 1916
Died: April 20, 2003 (aged 86)
Bio: Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke was an amateur naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.