01921cam a2200349 i 4500 2686994028 TxAuBib 20260222120000.0 970218s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97006467 9780805037586 alk. paper 0805037586 alk. paper (OCoLC)36430653 TxAuBib rda Pynchon, Thomas. Mason & Dixon [BOOK] / Thomas Pynchon. Mason and Dixon. First edition. New York : Henry Holt, 1997. 773 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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, 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.". 20260222. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Surveyors Fiction. United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Mason-Dixon Line Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction.