Fifteen years ago, Eduardo Mencos (farmer, landscape designer and photographer) and Charles Quest-Ritson (historian, writer, journalist and editor) conceived the idea of going on a trip around the world, like Jules Verne, but with the olive tree playing the leading role. The outcome of that adventure through 26 countries is this book, which tells the story of humankind through the olive tree and its fruit. In the book, the authors take an in-depth look at a tree that is so familiar to us all and yet still remains so much of a mystery in terms of its many different guises.<\/p>\n
With over 200 spectacular photographs taken by Eduardo Mencos, accompanied by an erudite text written by Charles Quest-Ritson, the book sweeps through the manifold manifestations of the olive tree and its distinguishing traits. It covers the origin and later domestication of the tree, all of the different roles it has played and the significance it has had at different times throughout history, its importance in the Bible, right through to the most innovative contemporary methods used today for growing and cloning olive trees, together with the prominent place it holds in the Mediterranean diet and its different uses.<\/p>\n
The intention of this long journey is to awaken a vision of the olive tree that is imbued with beauty, poetry and curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tells the story of humankind through the olive tree and its fruit. With over 200 spectacular photographs taken by Eduardo Mencos, accompanied by an erudite text written by Charles Quest-Ritson.
15 Introduction
\nThe Origin of Species
\nThe Domestication of the Olive
\nThe Development of Cultivars
\nSelecting the Best Cultivars
\nClones and New Cultivars
\nDensity
\nOldest Trees
\nThe Bible
\nThe Olive Tree in Roman Times
\n43 Conservation & lifestyle
\nCultivation
\nTable olives
\nConservation
\nOlive wood
\nSoap
\nThe Cretan diet
\nThe olive lifestyle
\n67 Around the world
\nEurope
\nNorth Africa and the Near East
\nAsia
\nNew Worlds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":50240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21581],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50239","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-world","7":"author-by-author-charles-quest-ritson","8":"author-photographs-by-eduardo-mencos-valdes","9":"publisher-ediciones-el-viso","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n