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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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The Ice Trade in the Book

The idea of an ice cooled drink just didn't really exist in casual universe. The ice trade was again, one of these things you stumble across when you're doing your research and you think, wow, what a gift I'll factor that into the novel. But it's true. They shipped ice all around the world. And of course, some of it melted, but they insulated in such a way that ice from frozen lakes in Massachusetts was shipped to Calcutta and Bombay to chill your lemonade.

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