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Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon.

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. By the author of Vineland.

Item details

ISBN: 0805037586
ISBN: 9780805037586
ISBN: 0312423209
ISBN: 9780312423209
ISBN: 9780805058376
ISBN: 0805058370
Physical Description: 773 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 1997.

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Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 > Fiction.
Dixon, Jeremiah > Fiction.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life > Fiction.
British > United States > Fiction.
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Surveying > Fiction.
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Dixon, Jeremiah, 1733-1779.
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Mason, Charles, (1728-1786) > Romans.
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Etats-Unis > 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
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