| Description |
x, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A pride of Tudors -- Days of great felicity -- Bridge or no bridge -- A slippery speculation -- A man without money -- "Circumstances" are at fault -- A hero might be useful -- Reversals of fortune -- I rolled my wagon on -- What shall we do about Harry -- Striking the second blow -- The worthless cousin and the unfortunate schemer -- Inevitably and unavoidably rich -- My wagon mired in mud -- Taking care of William -- Plotting her last plot -- The dreadful whirlwind's sway -- The three Delias -- Of salt, double dories, and love -- The winter that rotted in the sky - Ixion, King of the Lapithae -- New and untried paths -- Love, loving, kiss, kissing -- The jewel in his crown -- Happy to be married man -- I was a bachelor too long -- Very delicate situations -- Back to the ice business -- The great fallings out -- A trio of oddities -- Squire of Nahant -- What shadows we pursue. |
| Summary |
In 1805, Bostonian Frederic Tudor decided that he would make his fortune shipping ice to the tropics; a plan his peers dismissed as ridiculous. Despite the many setbacks he encountered, Tudor refused to give up, and with more than dogged perseverance, he established markets in cities all over the world, from Charleston and New Orleans to Havana and even Calcutta. The biography chronicles Frederic's business adventures in colorful detail, but the authors also give us much more. They capture the dynamics of what was, in modern parlance, a dysfunctional family, rife with petty misunderstandings and persistent grudges; the Tudor whims and squabbles, played out on a global scale. |
| Subject |
Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864.
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Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
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Ice industry -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Paterson, Stanley.
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Seaburg, Alan, 1932-
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| ISBN |
0939510804 |
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9780939510801 |
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