You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Hopefully they will be exquisite.

Based on this article of https://www.veranda.com/travel/g1436/...
The Challenge

Badge 1 - Select 4 museums and read all the tasks for each museum (16 books).
Badge 2 - Select 6 museums and read all the tasks for each museum (24 books).
Badge 3 - Select 8 museums and read all the tasks for each museum (32 books).
Badge 4 - Select 10 museums and read all the tasks for each museum (40 books).
Badge 5 - Complete the final 12 museums (48 books).

Reporting:

1. Badge 2, book 1, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum number & Category,
3. Link to book read.
4. Number of pages.
5. Give a very brief summary of the task.
6. State how the book fits the criteria. Any requirements must be included in this section (cover link if cover task, picture link if interactive task, etc.)

Museum 1-10

✨✨✨Museum 1: Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal ✨✨✨
1. Location -Read a book set in Africa or written by an African author. 7/30/21
2. About - Read a book originally published in 2019. 3/12/21
3. Collection - Read a book with the word "secret(s)" is in the title. 01/18/21
4. Interactive Item -
The panels on the left are Questions and Responses.
Task: Read a book with a question word in the title (Who, What, When, Where, Why or How) 6/4/21

Museum 2: Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán in Chiclayo, Peru
1. Location -Read a book set in South America or written by a South American author.
2. About - Read a book with the word "Lord(s)" in the title.
3. Collection - Read a book with one or more masks on the cover.
4. Interactive Item - Tbd

Museum 3: Bangkok National Museum
1. Location - Read a book that has a throne on the cover, or has the word "throne(s)" in the title or series title.
2. About - Read a book that has a word in it that is derived from the letters in the name Chulalongkorn. The word must be at least 4 letters long.
3. Collection - Read a book with an elephant on the cover or the word "elephant" in the title.
4. Interactive Item - tbd

✨✨✨Museum 4: The National Art Center in Tokyo✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in Japan. The Samurai's Garden 10/09/21
2. About - Read a book that is the 2nd in a series. 10/12/21
3. Collection - Read a book with waves on the cover. 3/14/21
4. Interactive Item -
From the exhibit: Nature in Japan and the Spirit of “Sho”
“200 Selected Works by Japanese Calligraphers-in commemoration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games” I chose a calligraphy with flowing script like cursive.
Task: Read a book where the title is written in cursive font
10/20/21

Museum 5: National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
1. Location - Read a book set in Washington, D.C.
2. About - Read a book written by and African-American writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
3. Collection - Read a book with fruit on the cover.
4. Interactive Item - tbd

✨✨✨Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in South Africa or written by a South African Author 10/15/21
2. About - Read a book with a cover that is 75% yellow. 10/9/21
3. Collection - Read a book with "knife" or "knives" in the title. 8/21/21
4. Interactive Item -
MACHO NNE 09 (CARIBBEAN PEACOCK)
2014
Pigmented inkjet print
150 x 120 cm
By CYRUS KABIRU
Task: Read a book set in the Caribbean. 9/19/21

Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
1. Location - Read a book set in Canada or written by a Canadian author. So many options.
2. About - Read a book that is in a series with 5 primary works.
3. Collection -Read a book with a horse or horses on the cover.
4. Interactive Item - tbd

✨✨✨Museum 8: Tate Modern in London✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in London, England. 4/9/21
2. About - Read a fantasy novel featuring a queen. "Fantasy" must be listed as a genre on the main book page. 5/20/21
3. Collection - Read a book that has a main book page genre of science fiction. 1/1/21
4. Interactive item -
Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
Watercolour on paper by: Simeon Solomon, 1864
Task: Read a book in the LGBT genre. 2/20/21

Museum 9. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
1. Location - Read a book set in New York City.
2. About - Read a book that is a chunkster over 500 pages.
3. Collection - Read a book with a raven(s) on the cover or in the title. Retry ?
4. Interactive Item - tbd

Museum 10. Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands
1. Location - Read a book set in the Netherlands or written by a Dutch author.
2. About - Read a book set in the seventeenth century (1601 - 1700)
3. Collection - Read a book with a chair on the cover.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 11-20

Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei
1. Location - Read a book with the word "night" or "market" is in the title. Plurals are allowed. ,
2. About - Read a book set in a fictional or fantasy city.
3. Collection - Read a book with dragons in it.
4. - Interactive item - tbd

Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
1. Location -Read a book set in Egypt.
2. About - Read a book in which a river plays a significant role.
3. Collection - Read a book with "gold" as a root word in the title. (Gold, Golden, etc.) ,
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
1. Location - Read a book set in Austria or written by an Austrian author.
2. About - Read a book that has a geometric shape of circle, square, triangle, or rectangle on it. This task excludes moons or planet shapes as circles.
3. Collection - Read a book that has a main page genre of romance. Sebastian St Cyr book
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
1. Location - Read a book about a climate disaster.
2. About - Read a book that was originally published in 2000.
3. Collection - Read a book that has the word "Daughter" in the title. Plurals are allowed. , ,
4. Interactive item -
Variations on Two Arches II
Betsy Padín
Acrylic on canvas
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Collection
Task: There is an arch on the cover

Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1. Location - Read a book set in California.
2. About - Read a book in which a significant character is a photographer, or there is a photograph on the cover. (The cover cannot be the photograph.)
3. Collection - Read a memoir/biography of a celebrity who was popular in the 1960's. Marilyn Monroe comes to mind.
4. Interactive item -
Elmer Bischoff, Untitled, 1960
Task: Read a book with a nude on the cover

Museum 16. Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
1. Location - Read a book set it Mexico or written by a Mexican author.
2. About - Read a book set in a school, college, or university.
3. Collection - Read a book that has a single feather on the cover.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 17: Musée D'Orsay in Paris
1 Location - Read a book set in Paris.
2. About - Read a book with a train on the cover.
3. Collection - Read a book about people who's work is derived from the sea.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago
1. Location - Read a book set in Illinois.
2. About - Read a book with fire on the cover.
3. Collection - Read a book with a theme of mental illness.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 19: Museo Larco in Lima
1. Location -Read a book with sport as a theme.
2. About - Read a book whose author's first and last initials are any combination of R L H.
3. Collection - Read a book with jewelry on the cover.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, China
1. Location - Read a book set in historic China - prior to 1900.
2. About - Read the third book in a series.
3. Collection - Read a book that has "archer" in the title or author's name. Or, a significant character is an archer.
5. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 21-30

✨Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
1. Location -Read a book with the word "tower(s)" in the title.
2. About - Read a book with "pyramid" in the title or on the cover. 3/2/21
3. Collection - Read a book with a theme of angels. 9/28/21
4. Interactive item -
Frieze of Griffins
Iran, Persian empire during the Achaemenian period: palace of Darius I to Susa, 6th–5th century BC
Task: Read a book with any winged creature on the cover. 3/19/21

✨✨✨Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in Russia. 4/6/21
2. About - Read a book with a significant character or author with the name Catherine. 8/29/21
3. Collection - Read a book with filigree on the cover. It may be a design element of the cover, or part of an article. 2/8/21
4. Interactive item -
Inkwell in the Form of a Cockerel
Saint Petersburg. 1899–1908
House of Fabergé. Workshop of Julius Rappoport
Silver, jade, synthetic rubies State Hermitage, Saint Peterburg
Task: Read a book with a barnyard animal on the cover. 8/21/21

✨✨✨Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in Spain. 8/2/21
2. About - Read a book that has 200-299 pages. Use the rules for audiobooks and ebooks. 2/17/21
3. Collection - Read a book with a man wearing a hat on the cover. 8/10/21
4. Interactive item -
Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-waiting)
Diego Velázquez
1656
Oil on canvas
The painting shows 5-year-old Infanta Margaret Theresa surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog.
Task: Read a children's book with a young girl protagonist. 7/8/21



Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
1. Location - Read a book set in the UK. easy peasy
2. About - Read a book that is in a series of seven published works.
3. Collection - Read a book that is a mystery, solved by a man & woman duo.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 25. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
1. Location - Read a book with "Windmill(s), Wind(s), or Mill(s)" in the title.
2. About - Read a book with "Swan(s)" in the title, or on the cover.
3. Collection - Read a book with a book(s) on the cover.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 26. The Vasa Museum in Stockholm
1. Location - Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish author.
2. About - Read a book with the theme of Vikings.
3. Collection - Read a book with a lion on the cover or the word "Lion(s)" in the title.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 27. The Acropolis Museum in Athens
1. Location - Read a book set in Greece, or written by a Greek author.
2. About - Read a book with a main page genre of mythology.
3. Collection - Read a book in which a dog is a significant character.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 28. The British Museum in London
1. Location - Read a book based on the Arthurian legend.
2. About - Read a book with the work "Empire(s)" in the title.
3. Collection - Read a book whose cover is at least 75% blue.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 29. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
1. Location - Read a book set in Venice.
2. About - Read a book set between the years 900 and 1100.
3. Collection - The cover has a bearded man, or a signification character has a beard.
4. Interactive item - tbd

✨✨✨Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in Italy (excludes Venice), or written by an Italian author. 11/11/21
2. About - Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover, or a significant character plays a musical instrument. 2/16/21
3. Collection - Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery that involves kidnapping. 4/8/21
4. Interactive item -
https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze....
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Author: Odoardo Borrani
Date: 1860 - 1870
Technique: Oil on panel
Of all the museums to choose from this is the only one I have actually visited. Other than the statue of David it was all gold foil religious pieces as can be seen in this painting of within the museum.
Task: Ready a featuring a museum or art gallery 11/27/21

Museum 31-40

Museum 31. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans
1. Location - Read a book set in New Orleans.
2. About - Read a book originally published in 2000.
3. Collection - Read a book with the word "Code(s)" in the title.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 32. Pergamon Museum in Berlin
1. Location - Read a book set in Germany, or written by a German author.
2. About - Read a book that is set in the future.
3. Collection - Read a book set in Ancient Rome or Ancient Egypt.
4. Interactive item - tbd

✨Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
1. Location - Read a book that was originally published in Spanish and translated to English. 2/14/21
2. About - Read a book from Mazes and Labyrinths List. State the position number when reporting.
3. Collection - Read a book with a human character who is male and over the age of 70.
4. Interactive item -

Juggling Man, about 1615, Adriaen de Vries
Task: Read a book that involves a circus, carnival or fair. 6/9/21

Museum 34. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
1. Location - Read a book set in Washington State.
2. About - Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.
3. Collection - Read a book with a candle(s) on the cover, or in the title.
4. Interactive item - tbd

✨✨✨Museum 35. Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil✨✨✨
1. Location - Read a book set in Brazil or the Amazon forest. 6/12/21
2. About - Read a book with a bridge on the cover or "bridge(s)" in the title. 6/1/21
3. Collection - Read a book that has two main words with the same initial in the title. There may be articles and conjoiners (the, in, and, but, etc), but no additional words. 11/19/21
4. Interactive item -
One part of the Institute is the Museum of Arms. There are over 3000 weapon and armor peices.
Task: Read a book with metal armor or someone clearly wearing metal armor on the cover. 9/11/21

Museum 36. Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem
1. Location - Read a book set in Israel or written by an Israeli author.
2. About - Read a book with a proper name in the title. This is restricted to a person's name.
3. Collection - Read a book with the theme of Music. "Music" must show on the main page page genres.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 37. National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1. Location - Read a book set in either Maryland or Virginia.
2. About - Read a book set in the 1990's.
3. Collection - Read a book with a significant character who is a nun. This character may be from any religion, real or fictional, as long as she is called a nun.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 38. Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil
1. Location -Read a book with a theme of Natural Disaster. The book may be about earthquakes, volcanoes, weather (hurricane, tornado), mountain slides, floods, forest fires, etc. It does not include situations like airplane crashes, shipwrecks, etc.
2. About - Read a book that takes place primarily on a farm, ranch, or plantation.
3. Collection - Read a book that is set in a fantasy world.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 39. Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
1. Location - Read a book that is on the Kick Ass Military Science Fiction Books list. State position on the list.
2. About - Read a book that is on the
Art & Artists in Fiction list. State position on the list.
3. Collection - Read a book where the main character is a ballet dancer. The book may be fiction or non-fiction (memoir, biography).
4. Interactive item - tbd

Museum 40. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington
1. Location - Read a book set in New Zealand or written by a New Zealand author.
2. About - Read a book that is on the Pirates! list. State position on the list.
3. Collection -Read a book with "Postcard(s)" or "Letter(s)" in the title.
4. Interactive item - tbd

Badge 1
16/16

Museum 1: Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal
Location: Stay with Me
About: The Kingdom of Copper
Collection: A Secret Kept
Interactive: Why Kings Confess

Museum 8 Tate Modern in London
Location: A Stranger in Mayfair
About: The Empire of Gold
Collection: Riot Baby
Interactive: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

Museum 22. State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
Location: The Bear and the Nightingale
About: The Off Season
Collection: The City of Brass
Interactive: Dairy Queen

Museum 23. Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid
Location: Cathedral of the Sea
About: The Mirrored World
Collection: Who Buries the Dead
Interactive: The Golden Compass

Badge 2

24/24

Museum 4: The National Art Center in Tokyo
Location: The Samurai's Garden
About: The Queen of Attolia
Collection: The Boat People
Interactive: The Swallows of Kabul

Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
Location: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
About: Recursion
Collection: The Subtle Knife
Interactive: Love in the Time of Cholera

Museum 21. The Musée du Louvre in Paris
Location: The Girl in the Tower
About: The Three-Body Problem
Collection: The Amber Spyglass
Interactive: The Pull of the Stars

Museum 30. Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
Location: From Sand and Ash
About: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Collection: Disappearing Earth
Interactive: Still Lives

Museum 33. The Getty Center in Los Angeles
Location: Things We Lost in the Fire
About: Looking for Alaska
Collection: Family Matters
Interactive: The Gracekeepers

Museum 35. Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife, Brazil
Location: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
About: The Thief
Collection: The Thirteenth Tale
Interactive: The Song of Achilles

Lonely extra entries will live here together:

Cheers to a new year and a new reading challenge!

1. Badge 1, book 1, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 8 (Tate Modern), Task 3 Collection
3. Link to book read Riot Baby
4. Number of pages. ebook; top paper has 176 pages
5. Task: Read a book that has a main book page genre of science fiction
6. 242 users tagged it Science Fiction on the main page

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The ice is broken!

1. Badge 1, book 2, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum #1, Collection
3. A Secret Kept
4. audio; top paper has 303 pages
5. Read a book with the word "secret(s)" is in the title
6. A Secret Kept is the title

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1. Badge 1, book 3, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 22; collection
3. The City of Brass
4. 526 pages
5. Read a book with filigree on the cover
6.

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Out of Order

1. Badge 2, book 1, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 33, Location
3. Things We Lost in the Fire
4. ebook; top paper has 208 pages
5. Read a book that was originally published in Spanish and translated to English
6. Original Spanish title is Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego


Note to self
I've had a hard time deciding where to put this one.
Other options are Horror, 200 pages.

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1. Badge 2, book 2, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 30, About
3. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
4. audio; top paper has 513 pages
5. Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover, or a significant character plays a musical instrument
6. There is a violin on the cover as well as one of the MC's, Percy, plays the violin.

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1. Badge 1, book 4, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 23, About
3. The Mirrored World
4. ebook; top paper has 256 pages
5. Read a book that has 200-299 pages
6. It has 256 pages

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1. Badge 1, book 5, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 8, Interactive
3. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
4. audio; top paper has 450pages
5. Task: Read a book in the LGBT genre.
6. (view spoiler)[
Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene
Watercolour on paper by: Simeon Solomon, 1864 (hide spoiler)]

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1. Badge 2, book 3, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 21, About
3. The Three-Body Problem
4. 399 pages
5. Read a book with "pyramid" in the title or on the cover.
6. This book's been hanging around the pyramid on the cover challenges for a while. Finally read it.

This is the first museum not part of the original plan... I think I can make it work though.

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Vicki wrote: "This is the first museum not part of the original plan... I think I can make it work though..."

Funny how that happens. I've already moved a Badge 2 museum to a Badge 1 museum in my challenge.

1. Badge 1, book 6, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 1; About
3. Link to book read. The Kingdom of Copper
4. 609 pages.
5. Read a book originally published in 2019
6. First published Jan 22, 2019

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1. Badge 2, book 3 4, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 4, Collection
3. Link to book read. The Boat People
4. Audio; top paper has 339 pages
5. Task: Read a book with waves on the cover
6.

edit: it's book 4

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1. Badge 2, book 5, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 21, Interactive
3. The Pull of the Stars
4. Audio; top paper 295 pages
5. Task: Read a book with any winged creature on the cover.
6. (view spoiler)[
Frieze of Griffins
Iran, Persian empire during the Achaemenian period: palace of Darius I to Susa, 6th–5th century BC (hide spoiler)]

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1. Badge 1, book 7, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 22; Location
3. The Bear and the Nightingale
4. Audio; top paper 319 pages
5. Task: Read a book set in Russia.
6. It is set in Russia

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1. Badge 1, book 8, 0/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 8; Location
3. A Stranger in Mayfair
4. 320 pages
5. Read a book set in London, England
6. The MC is a gentleman detective of London England.

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Do you love Charles Lenox, Vicki? 😊

Cherie wrote: "Do you love Charles Lenox, Vicki? 😊"

Haha yes I love Lenox but less enamored with the ladies. I find Toto irritating and Lady Jane a tad dull. Lord Dallington is my favorite actually.

1. Badge 2, book 6, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 30; Collection
3. Disappearing Earth
4. Audio; top paper has 312 pages
5. Task: Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery that involves kidnapping.
6. Mystery on the main page ✔️
From the blurb: One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted.

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1. Badge 1, book 9, 1/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 8, About
3. The Empire of Gold
4. ebook; top paper has 766 pages
5. Task: Read a fantasy novel featuring a queen.
6. Fantasy is the top genre. (view spoiler)[Queen Hatset appeared, what feels briefly now that I'm done, but I thought she was significant during her part. I think at one point Manizheh or Nahri were referred to as a queen. Manizheh definitely thought herself a queen(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

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Although brief, she did have a impactful role.

Janice wrote: "✔️

Although brief, she did have a impactful role."

Oh good, that completes my first museum! ✨

Woohoo!

1. Badge 2, book 7, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 35; About
3. The Thief
4. Audio; top paper has 280 pages
5. Task: Read a book with a bridge on the cover or "bridge(s)" in the title.
6. Bridge on the cover:

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1. Badge 1, book 10, 1/4 Museums Completed
2. Museum 1; Interactive
3. Why Kings Confess
4. ebook; top paper has 340 pages
5. Task: Read a book with a question word in the title (Who, What, When, Where, Why or How)
6. (view spoiler)[
Do you remember your French? The panels on the left are Questions and Responses. This link lets you zoom in. (hide spoiler)] Has the word "Why" in the title

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1. Badge 2, book 8, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 33; Interactive
3. The Gracekeepers
4. 293 pages
5. Task: Read a book that involves a circus, carnival or fair
6. (view spoiler)[Juggling Man

Juggling Man, about 1615, Adriaen de Vries (hide spoiler)]

The book is mostly set on a traveling circus boat.

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1. Badge 2, book 9, 0/6 Museums Completed
2. Museum 35; Location
3. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
4. Audio; top paper has 339 pages
5. Read a book set in Brazil or the Amazon forest.
6. A biography of Percy Fawcett, it follows a bunch of expeditions into the Amazon, mapping and looking for a lost civilization similar to El Dorado.

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