01389cam a2200337 4500 1261854755 TxAuBib 970218s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97006467 9780805037586 alk. paper 0805037586 alk. paper (OCoLC)1423 DLC DLC OCL FIT OCL CWR TxAuBib 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.