With the young age of 10, Aurora tells the stories and highlights of growing up on a boat. She shares her unique experiences as a “boat kid” to give you a window into a truly alternative lifestyle.

Aurora Ulani Jacobsen was born in Taiwan and grew up on a catamaran sailing around the world for eight years. Highlights of the trip were the times spent in Kiribati and the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific, Madagascar and especially the uninhabited Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. She has spent every one of her ten birthdays in a different country and now lives in the north of Germany in a small village. Her mother tongue is Mandarin-Chinese, but she understands, speaks, reads and writes English and German just as well.



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