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Like the Silk Road and the Spice Route, the Olive Route
– stretching 2,200 miles from Gibraltar to northern
Syria – encompasses not just a journey, but an
epic adventure involving the age-old transportation
of a precious commodity. Carol Drinkwater travelled
along this beautiful and sometimes dangerous route,
uncovering ancient stories, meeting striking and courageous
people and tracing its venerable olive culture. Tracking
the Cretans, Phoenicians, Greeks and the Romans, amongst
others, she eventually finds her way back to her olive
farm in the sun-baked hills of southern France.
The Olive Route recounts a thrilling, heroic,
sensual and entertaining journey by the bestselling
author of the much loved Olive series.
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