{"product_id":"mason-dixon-1st-ed","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997\u003cbr\u003eTime Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thomas Pynchon","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":58447008432288,"sku":"9780805037586","price":55.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/869806.jpg?v=1785000803","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/mason-dixon-1st-ed","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}