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, taking place early March 2010. It is therefore high time for a not very subtle hint: it’s all about fish!

To catch up on the backlog of prizes, we add three more books from publisher Hollandia to the total of available prizes. Since all these books are in Netherlands language, we suggest you switch to the Dutch version of this website where the prizes are listed.

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 Cox) has been selected. This book, like Around Africa, describes the sailing voyage of a young family. A lot of themes are similar to those dealt with in Around Africa. Since the styles differ a lot, both books make interesting complementary reading.