Mason & Dixon
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between 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, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-312-42320-9
- EAN: 9780312423209
- Produktnummer: 19367631
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 784 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.1 cm x D3.4 cm 612 g
- Auflage: First
- Gewicht: 612
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Thomas Pynchon
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