Sally Lightfoot

The winner of the readers challenge takes a long time discovering the big, fat lie. It is hidden somewhere in the text of Around Africa. Since we can not afford to keep the total of prizes adding up indefinately, we are determined to be able to announce the winner at next year’s Amsterdam Boat show, [...]

This month’s prize is Tania Aebi’s ‘Solo‘. At the age of 18 she set sail for a world circumnavigation, at the time by far the youngest girl ever to try such a long voyage. The book has been choosen in light of 14 year old Laura Dekker’s intended two year world cruise.

The hot summer month of August has not yielded a prize winner. We will give you another clue: combine two incidents described many chapters apart. 
We have to change one prize since the book is not available any longer. ’Regenmakers’ has therefor been substituted by: ‘Van Esfahan tot Efese’ (Nanny de Vries). For August ‘Ritme van de Oceaan’ (Olaf [...]

Sorry, only in Dutch

Will no one ever come up with the big lie, hidden somewhere in the text of Around Africa? Is it hidden too well? Is it about time for a hint? For that it is still too early, but a little push never hurts to give the reader another incentive to start digging in the text. [...]

Again, a prize has been added to the treasurechest filled with prizes to be had by the first person to discover ’the Big Lie’ in the book Rondom Afrika. Unfortunately for those of you that only read English, the book is in Dutch. Nevertheless, try your luck, and win now also a set of t-shirts and baseball caps printed with the logo of Gerry [...]