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Pynchon, Thomas.
Mason & Dixon /
Thomas Pynchon.
Mason and Dixon.
1st ed.
New York :
Henry Holt,
1997.
773 p. ;
25 cm.
The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland.
Mason, Charles
1728-1786
Fiction.
Dixon, Jeremiah
Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life
Fiction.
British
United States
Fiction.
Surveying
Fiction.
Surveyors
Fiction.
United States
History
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Fiction.
Pennsylvania
Fiction.
Maryland
Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.