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.
Mason & Dixon
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773 pages
English language
Published Nov. 26, 1997 by Henry Holt.
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