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1 online resource (1 audio file (33hr., 55 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Recorded Books classics library.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Steven Crossley. |
| Summary |
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, 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 |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 -- Fiction.
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Dixon, Jeremiah -- Fiction.
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.
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British -- United States -- Fiction.
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Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
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Surveying -- Fiction.
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Surveyors -- Fiction.
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Maryland -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Crossley, Steven, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781980007562 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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198000756X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13534998 |
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