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An edition of ↪ /works/OL15857251W (1997)

Mason & Dixon

1st ed.

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  • 27 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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.

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Henry Holt
Language
English
Pages
773

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Subjects
Fiction, Surveyors, Frontier and pioneer life, Surveying, History, British, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Pennsylvania, fiction, Maryland, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Géomètres, Romans, Belletristische Darstellung, Historical fiction, Vie des pionniers, Long Now Manual for Civilization
People
Charles Mason (1728-1786), Jeremiah Dixon, Charles Mason (1730-1787), Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779), Charles (Geodät) Mason, Jérémiah Dixon
Places
United States, Pennsylvania, Maryland, États-Unis, Etats-Unis
Times
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 18e siècle, 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)

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1997, Henry Holt
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Other Titles
Mason and Dixon

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3566.Y55 M37 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
773 p. ;
Number of pages
773

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24766204M
Internet Archive
masondixon00pync
ISBN 10
0805037586
ISBN 13
9780805037586
LCCN
97006467
OCLC/WorldCat
36430653

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Told from the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke – a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy – who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening (partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house). Claiming to have accompanied Mason and Dixon throughout their journeys, Cherrycoke tells a tale intermingling Mason and Dixon's biographies with history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication.

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