Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 773
ISBN-13: 9780805037586
Subjects: Géomètres; Frontier and pioneer life; British; Fiction; Romans; Surveyors; Belletristische Darstellung; Historical fiction; Surveying; Vie des pionniers; History
Other titles: Mason and Dixon
Description: 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.