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Mason and Dixon

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.

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  • "Mason and Dixon"@pl
  • "Mason and Dixon"
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  • "Mason und Dixon"
  • "Mason et Dixon"
  • "Mason & Dixon"@pl

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  • "1786, à Philadelphie. En visite chez sa soeur, le révérend Cherrycoke entreprend de raconter à ses neveux les aventures de deux astronomes anglais, Charles Mason et Jeremiah Dixon qui, vingt-cinq ans plus tôt, avaient été chargés par la Royal Society d'observer, au Cap, le passage de Venus, avant de se retrouver embarqués, à partir de 1763, dans une incroyable odyssée au coeur de l'Amérique du Nord, où ils ont pour mission de tracer d'est en ouest une ligne absolument rectiligne de huit mètres de large, qui devra séparer le Maryland et la Pennsylvanie, et ce à la demande de Lord Baltimore et de Thomas Penn, les héritiers respectifs de ces deux provinces."
  • "Die Briten Charles Mason und Jeremiah Dixon, ein Astronom und ein Landvermesser, nehmen uns mit auf eine Grand Tour durch die dunklen Gefilde der Aufklärung im 18. Jahrhundert, von ihrer ersten gemeinsamen Expedition ans Kap der Guten Hoffnung ins vorrevolutionäre Amerika und wieder zurück nach England. Wir begegnen Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, einem chinesischen Feng-shui-Meister, einem sprechenden Hund und einem Enten-Automaten."
  • "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."@en
  • "Fictionalized account of the adventures of the two British surveyors who set the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland better known as the Mason-Dixon line."
  • "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 reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason and Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair--Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic--pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason."@en
  • "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."
  • "Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland. This novel presents their story and features Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse."@en

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  • "Powieść biograficzna amerykańska"
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  • "Powieść amerykańska"
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  • "Roman américain"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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