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Ice!: The Amazing History of the Ice Business

Autor Laurence Pringle
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2012 – vârsta de la 9 până la 12 ani

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In the early 1800s, people began to harvest ice, store it in ways that limited melting, and transport it to homes and businesses. Eventually, almost everyone had an icebox, and a huge, vital ice business grew. In this riveting book, acclaimed writer Laurence Pringle describes the key inventions and ideas that helped the ice business flourish. He points to the many sources of ice throughout the East and Midwest and spotlights Rockland Lake, “the icebox of New York City,” to offer a close-up look at the ice business in action. Pringle worked closely with experts and relied on primary documents, including archival photographs, postcards, prints, and drawings, to capture the times when everyone waited for the ice man and his wagon to deliver those precious blocks of ice.
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ISBN-13: 9781590788011
ISBN-10: 159078801X
Pagini: 74
Dimensiuni: 221 x 241 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Calkins Creek Books

Notă biografică

Laurence Pringle has written more than one hundred books for children and teenagers, many of them award-winning science titles. Internationally, his books have sold more than three million copies.

Illustrated with black-and-white archival photographs.

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Pringle describes the key inventions and ideas that helped the ice business flourish. He discusses northern areas of the East and Midwest that were sources of ice and gives details of ice harvesting and storage by focusing on one lakeNRockland Lake, "the ice box of New York City." Illustrations.

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