The Frozen Water Trade
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Published: May 2, 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780007102860
Subjects: Economic history; Social history; Indian sub-continent; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World
First sentence: When the brothers William and Frederic Tudor agreed to put together what money they had in the summer of 1805 and invest it in a scheme to sell ice to the West Indies, they held the plan close to their chests.