The Olive Tree : Around the World

Quest-Ritson, Charles/ Mencos Valdés, Eduardo (PHT)

Ediciones El Viso（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9788412846683
• DDC分類 634.63

Full Description

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.

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.

The intention of this long journey is to awaken a vision of the olive tree that is imbued with beauty, poetry and curiosity.

Contents

15 Introduction
The Origin of Species
The Domestication of the Olive
The Development of Cultivars
Selecting the Best Cultivars
Clones and New Cultivars
Density
Oldest Trees
The Bible
The Olive Tree in Roman Times
43 Conservation & lifestyle
Cultivation
Table olives
Conservation
Olive wood
Soap
The Cretan diet
The olive lifestyle
67 Around the world
Europe
North Africa and the Near East
Asia
New Worlds