The Olive Tree. Around the World

Photographs by Eduardo Mencos. Texts by Charles Quest-Ritson.

ISBN: 978-84-128466-7-6

Year: 2024

Pages: 240

Illustrations: 150

Binding: Hardcover binding

Size: 26.5 x 31 cm

Published by: El Viso Editions, Madrid

Fifteen years ago, Eduardo Mencos Valdés and Charles Quest-Ritson began to concoct the idea of ​​​​commencing a Jules Verne-style trip around the world, but with the olive tree as the protagonist. The result of this adventure across 27 countries is this book, which narrates the history of humanity through the olive tree and its fruits. In it, they have thoroughly studied this tree, which, despite being so well known to everyone, is at the same time so unknown in its manifestations.

Eduardo Mencos's spectacular photographs, accompanied by an erudite text by Charles Quest-Ritson, cover the many manifestations of the olive tree and its different peculiarities: from its origin and subsequent domestication, through its different vicissitudes and meanings throughout history, its importance in the Bible, to the most innovative cultivation and cloning methods, as well as its prominent role in the Mediterranean diet and its different uses.