Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pynchon, Thomas.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mason, Charles, 1728-1786--Fiction.

Mason, Charles.

Dixon, Jeremiah.

Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.

Surveyors.

Frontier and pioneer life.

British.

History.

Surveying.

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

United States.

Maryland.

Pennsylvania.

Surveying--United States--History--18th century--Fiction.

British--United States--History--18th century--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania--Fiction.

Frontier and pioneer life--Maryland--Fiction.

Surveyors--United States--Fiction.

Dixon, Jeremiah--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

773 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Owl Book edition.

Other Title:

Mason and Dixon

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt, 1998.

Summary:

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary betweed Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.

Notes:

"An Owl book."

ISBN:

0805058370

9780805058376

OCLC:

38974838