Mason & Dixon

773 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 1997 by Henry Holt.

ISBN:
978-0-8050-3758-6
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OCLC Number:
36430653

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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.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Géomètres
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • British
  • Fiction
  • Romans
  • Surveyors
  • Belletristische Darstellung
  • Historical fiction
  • Surveying
  • Vie des pionniers
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • Pennsylvania
  • Maryland
  • États-Unis
  • Etats-Unis