The Frozen Water Trade (Text Only): An Incredible Non-Fiction History of the Forgotten Global Ice Empire
Chronicles the forgotten 19th-century industry that harvested and shipped natural ice from New England to ports around the world before refrigeration made it obsolete.
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The Frozen Water Trade explores the rise and fall of an industry that once shipped natural ice across oceans.
It reveals how 19th-century entrepreneurs built a worldwide network supplying ice to distant markets.
The book examines the economic and technological forces that made this unusual trade possible.
It also shows how manufactured ice eventually ended the era of the frozen water trade.
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