The Olive Tree Around the World. 2024. 200 col. figs. 240 p. large 4to. Hardcover.

Fifteen years ago, Eduardo Mencos Valdés and Charles Quest-Ritson began to develop the idea of making a world tour with the olive tree as the main character.

The result of this adventure through 26 countries is this book, which tells the story of humanity through the olive tree and its fruits. In it they have studied in depth this tree which, despite being so well known to everyone, is at the same time so unknown in its manifestations. The spectacular photographs by Eduardo Mencos Valdés, 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 later domestication, through its different avatars and meanings throughout history, its importance in the Bible, to the most innovative cultivation methods, its prominent role in the Mediterranean diet and its different uses.