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Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America /
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English surveyors, treked through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America to create the famous Mason Dixon line. This book describes life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying and shows how Mason and Dixon succeeded wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2016]
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English surveyors, treked through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America to create the famous Mason Dixon line. This book describes life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying and shows how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119141815 1119141818 9781119141822 1119141826 9781119246145 1119246148 |