Title Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon

Published New York : Picador, 2004

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	810.54 P9977 A6/M		AVAILABLE

Description 773 pages ; 21 cm Summary 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 Subject Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 -- Fiction. Dixon, Jeremiah -- Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction. British -- United States -- Fiction. Surveying -- Fiction. Surveyors -- Fiction. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100177 Pennsylvania -- Boundaries -- Maryland http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002626 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Maryland -- Boundaries -- Pennsylvania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90002622 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. ISBN 0312423209 alkaline paper 9780312423209 alkaline paper

Other Titles Mason and Dixon

  Permalink