{"product_id":"mason-dixon-9780312423209","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pynchon, Thomas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MixBZ\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: General Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MixBZ","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45091582673047,"sku":"9780312423209","price":2090.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780312423209.webp?v=1769204700","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mason-dixon-9780312423209","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}