Here is a series of 13 caches in a GeoArt formation over Union Lake. Each puzzle must be answered to find the correct coordinates and the cache. All involve great reading material throughout the past few centuries. I hope you enjoy reading them or have done so in the past.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates.
The Count of Monte Cristo, French Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Romantic novel by French author Alexandre Dumas père (possibly in collaboration with Auguste Maquet), published serially in ––––– and in book form in 1844–45. The work, which is set during the time of the Bourbon Restoration in France, tells the story of an unjustly incarcerated man who escapes to find revenge.
What year did the serialization begin?
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