{"product_id":"mason-dixon","title":"Mason \u0026 Dixon","description":"\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":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943503266023,"sku":"9780312423209","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_fbfa7baa-692a-497e-994d-9760246a2587.jpg?v=1775324412","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/mason-dixon","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}