The Olive Tree: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves
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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I bought the entire series. Very enjoyable and well-written. These books in the Olive Farm series tell of the story of Carol's trials and tribulations of purchasing a property in Southern France and the subsequent development of the property as an olive farm. You'll lose you money and your mind!
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These books are great reading when you want to live vicariously thought someone else's home nightmares. One person found this helpful. Carol journeys in search of direct experiences with people at sites in the Middle East and Mediterranean world where olives have been a significant factor in the local economy and culture. Her great ability as an observer, and a story teller, make this familiarly readable, but not as interesting to me as the books focused on her life on and about the "farm.
Drinkwater is an excellent author with a warm and inviting writing style. I have her full collection of book about her and her partner's olive groves and I've greatly enjoyed each one. Each book gives both an intimate look into her life and is also very informative regarding the history and business of olive growing and olive oil production.
Her writing is beautifully descriptive, however, I thought there were too many details that did not interest me in this book. I look forward to reading the rest of her books. An interesting story of the author's attempt to find and follow the movement of the culture of olives around the Mediterranean, Drink water's tales and adventures seem to reflect the history she is trying to document.
What she has done, then, is to participate in the human story, closing some circles while pointing the way to the future of others. Drinkwater has an easy to read chatty style of writing. The subject matter was interesting and the travelogue entertaining. She delved a bit more deeply into the history of olive agriculture than I was interested in, but overall I was entertained as well as informed.
I have read Carol's other books in enjoyed all of them. They give insight into what it takes to raise olives, the trials and tribulations of doing such. She also gives insight into the history of the area and just makes you want to take a trip there. This seems to be book where the usual talented writer has selected a subject, and the subject lets her down.
I didn't finish it. Published June 13th by Phoenix first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Olive Route , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 08, Kerry rated it it was ok Shelves: I wanted to like this book, and I tried. I went back to it again and again in between reading other books, trying to warm myself to Drinkwater's style and the story she was trying to tell.
I was, in part, fascinated by her visit to the three-thousand-year-old olive grove, I liked the people that she met, and I wanted to see her reveal the answers in her quest to unravel the mystery of the olive tree. But I couldn't, in the end, travel that road with her. What struck me quickly was her insistence I wanted to like this book, and I tried.
What struck me quickly was her insistence on forcing long narratives or or exposition into dialogue. I'm not sure why she felt that placing quotation marks around paragraphs of text--as if she, or anyone else, actually speaks like that unless giving a lecture to a classroom full of students--added to the text. It felt insincere or careless; I didn't know which.
Even more out of place was when she related a story about a taxi driver who, by his own admission, could only "speech leetle Engleesh. It sounded more like her voice rather than the voice of the cab driver. Drinkwater's travel, rather than brave or daring as she wanted it to seem, dangerous and ill-planned. I didn't admire her, a single woman, traveling alone and sometimes without a definite idea about where she would stay or how she would get to place to place, in parts of the world with little infrastructure and a reputation for conservatism, particularly towards women.
Her travel felt arrogant and naive, as if, being a westerner, she could go where she wanted and behave how she pleased without experiencing repercussions. Nov 04, Julie Thomason rated it it was amazing. This booked proved to be fascinating for two very distinct reasons. As a foodie who lived in Spain for over twenty years I came to love and value olive oil; when I first moved to Spain I used to loathe the smell, now I can't eat fried eggs if they are not cooked in it!
The Olive Tree of Provence: A Personal Journey Through Mediterranean Olive Groves Paperback – 11 Jun Fifth volume in the bestselling Olive series by writer and actress Carol Drinkwater. THE OLIVE TREE charts Carol Drinkwater's colourful and often dangerous journey in search. THE OLIVE ROUTE: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean [Carol Drinkwater] on The Olive Tree by Carol Drinkwater Paperback $
I found the historical detection and discovery of ancient trees fascinating. Furthermore, quite unintentionally the author has provided unexpected background and insight to countries affected by the Arab Spring and the current con This booked proved to be fascinating for two very distinct reasons. Furthermore, quite unintentionally the author has provided unexpected background and insight to countries affected by the Arab Spring and the current conflict in Syria as it covers the couple of years preceding these events and she captures the tensions that were already there.
I especially enjoyed the chapters on Greece and Turkey having visited both places and after reading the chapters on Tunisia and Malta have added both places on my want to visit list. Although, I found some of her descriptions quite poetic, I found the overall narrative style a bit heavy going at times but nevertheless I loved this book. Jul 20, bibliotekker Holman rated it liked it. I always look for interesting travelogues from which to glean impressions about the world as well as fuel for teaching.
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While not the best, the author provides some interesting glimpses of nations from pre-Arab Spring Tunisia, Libya and Syria as well as Turkey and Greece. One of the most compelling images comes from her visit the the Bechealeh olive grove in Lebanon. These trees, purported to be years old, are among a small, yet, fascinating array of organisms whose sheer antiquity inspires I always look for interesting travelogues from which to glean impressions about the world as well as fuel for teaching.
These trees, purported to be years old, are among a small, yet, fascinating array of organisms whose sheer antiquity inspires awe and humility. More disturbing images come during her visit to the disturbing realities and bitter ironies of modern Israel where walls, barbed wire and bitter rivalries divide people in ways that are repressive and will only perpetuate the cycle of violence.
Dec 02, Rita rated it liked it. It took me ages to read this book. I'd loved Carol's books about her Olive Farm but couldn't really get into this. I couldn't understand why she was travelling alone and in the chapter about Libya it got quite scary. Jan 02, Marilyn Riotto rated it it was amazing. I listened to this book on a CD narrated by the author. This marvelous book is adventure, travelogue, and history made all the more enjoyable by the author's passion for her subject.
Jul 30, Sara Iles rated it it was amazing. Read for umpteenth time. Evokes senses, sights and places of now and ancient olive times. Feb 06, Melanie Gray rated it did not like it.
Amazon Inspire Digital Educational Resources. Feb 09, Donna rated it liked it Shelves: Determined not to give up, Carol accepts the support of a network of beekeepers who parcel her across troubled territories. Far too much descriptive verbiage, with little substance. Too much dteail and ao different from her other books. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Very enjoyable and well-written.
I just could not get into this book. Too much dteail and ao different from her other books. Bought because it was a kindle bargain. Plenty of good stuff here--I especially loved the descriptions of the Turkish coast--but I kept wanting to shake the author. She was clearly traveling with a privileged notion that as long as she was a fellow olive farmer she'd be safe and welcomed everywhere she went. Instead, she sometimes put her hosts to great inconvenience and some risk to keep her safe in places like Syria and Libya. Plus she obviously thought that if she had a good heart she could r Bought because it was a kindle bargain.
Plus she obviously thought that if she had a good heart she could raise her olives without sprays, to the great distress of the real farmers who were caring for her crop and saw it all destroyed. So read it for the travel, not for the narrator. Aug 18, Kate McKinstry rated it it was amazing Shelves: My favorite books of Ms.
Drinkwater's are those when she is home in France, writing about life at Appassionata. That being said, I also intensely enjoyed her account of traveling throughout the Mediterranean in search of the route of the olive tree. This book got a little scary in some places, like Libya and Israel, but I've always appreciated Ms.
Drinkwater's ability to not gloss over rough patches in her life, memories, or travels, and this book was no exception. It was the balanced kind of st My favorite books of Ms. It was the balanced kind of story telling I've grown to love from Ms.