Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Mason & Dixon /

Pynchon, Thomas.

Mason & Dixon / 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.

0805037586 (alk. paper)

97006467


Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 --Fiction.
Dixon, Jeremiah--Fiction.


Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.
British--Fiction.--United States
Surveying--Fiction.
Surveyors--Fiction.


United States--History--Fiction.--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Pennsylvania--Fiction.
Maryland--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

PS3566.Y55 / M37 1997

813/.54