Garrelt Verhoeven calls himself a bookcomber. On his forays through book markets, auctions and internet forums such as Marktplaats, he finds books that are sometimes very old, often hiding a special story. One such example from 1832 took him to the British island of Guernsey last week. There even the BBC delved into the story of Garrelt’s discovery of this booklet by a then 14-year-old boy who went to New York
