{"product_id":"mason-dixon-1","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"773 pp. 8vo. 9 1\/2 x 6 1\/2. \"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 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.\"","brand":"Henry Holt and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39982795391046,"sku":"2324155","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2324155.jpg?v=1650199240","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/mason-dixon-1","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}