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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.
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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 CivilizationPeople
Charles Mason (1728-1786), Jeremiah Dixon, Charles Mason (1730-1787), Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779), Charles (Geodät) Mason, Jérémiah DixonPlaces
United States, Pennsylvania, Maryland, États-Unis, Etats-UnisShowing 1 featured edition. View all 17 editions?
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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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