- Average
- R 431.00
- Lowest seen
- R 242.00
- Highest seen
- R 519.00
- Last change
- R 88.00
- First indexed
- 07 May 2022
- Retailer
- Loot
Description
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, in an updated eighteenth-century novel 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-RevoluntionaryAmerica and back, through the stange 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.
