This is the journal for my Lifetime Release Challenge. Target is to release at least one book in every country of the world (and get a caught as proof).
I count a country as completed, if there is a book caught by a non-anonymous finder and if it wasn't a bookring or something like that (unless it's been started by myself).

There is an overview of the participants in this Challenge.

Here's my map for the completed countries:


create your own visited country map

I also released books in Hungary and Croatia, but unfortunately they didn't get caught. More books were released via other nice bookcrossers during their holidays, but they also didn't get a journal.


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Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan

Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi

Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Zaire)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic

Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic

East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Europa Island

Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia

Gabon
Gambia, The
Gaza Strip and West Bank
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana

Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Howland Island
Hungary

Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy

Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan

Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan

Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg

Macau
Macadonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Man, Isle of
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritiana
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Monserrat
Morocco
Mozambique

Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway

Oman

Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Phillipines
Pitcairn Islands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico

Qatar

Reunion
Romania
Russia
Rwanda

Saint Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria

Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu

Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan

Vatican City
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands

Wallis and Futuna
Western Sahara

Yemen

Zambia
Zimbabwe

001. The wildrelease Ein schnelles Leben was found by fliwatuet. It's my caught for Germany!

002. For Poland, I lent kiyoitsukikage a few mangas of mine, Goth among them.

003. Rianonne from Austria took part in my bookring Die Bruderschaft von Yoor.

004. Another bookring, Dunkelheit, travelled to Switzerland to visit Morgaine77.

005. Since I got a second copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I looked up at Cliff's wishlist, who'd like to read this one, and in result it went on to Albury, Australia to Hearth-Crafter.

006. To Birmingham, UK I sent an old schoolbook of mine, The Great Gatsby. Thanks to Cliff's wishlist, it travelled to Megmac, who liked to read this one.

007. Also via Cliff's Hoot found its new owner, snufkin81, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Edit: And I'm really impressed, how much this book gets to see in South Africa. I guess it's quite happy :).

008. Via the German Community Forum was made a request from Finland for German books to improve the language. So, a bit later, Die Rückkehr des Hexenmeisters, an easy to read children's book, was on its way to MiuM, Finland.

009. In the OBCZ Kulturcafé have stood some free books, so I took them home for registering. One of them, The King of Lies, was on the wishlist of meshe, so I sent it to her in the United States.

010. Again in the OBCZ Kulturcafé was the unregistered book Shroud, so I did this at home and saw someone was wishing for it. Therefore I sent it to Deepswamp in Sweden.

011. After reading it myself I searched for a new reader for Magic or Madness and found him via wishlist search: vexter from Slovenia.