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Zane Grey's first historical western is the story of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across the plains and through the mountains and deserts to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah. Brilliant civil engineer Warren Neale, sided by Texas gunfighter and friend Larry Red King, are constantly confronted with construction problems, lawlessness, corruption, and the danger of Indian attacks.
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[1997]
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The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship. By the author of Vineland.
4) Dichronauts
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[2017]
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"Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right. Theo, in turn, relies on Seth for mobility, and for ordinary vision looking forwards and backwards. Like everyone else in their world, they are symbionts, depending on each other to survive. In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north...
5) True north
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Secrets of Wayfarers Inn volume 27
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Janice's childhood friend Anthony comes to Marietta for a surveyors' conference. He plans on presenting an antique compass reported to have belonged to George Washington to the historical society. Before Anthony can make the presentation, another conference attendee accuses him of stealing the compass from his father and then Anthony is attacked and the compass is stolen. As Janice and her friends search for the culprit, more people show up claiming...
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