Olive Series Olive Harvest: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean, The

Type

Book

Authors

Carol Drinkwater

ISBN 10

0753829363

ISBN 13

9780753829363

Tags

Memoirs, Women, Travelers & Explorers, travel, anglais, english, romance, France, Provence, Culture, nonfiction

Series Name

Olive Series

Abstract

'The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear and I cannot tell if it is caused by my lightheadedness or is a freak of nature. The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper of wind, not a breath of life. Only the two of us, a most implausible pair, standing shoulder to shoulder gazing upon an awakening heaven'. Returning to their home after an extended absence Carol and her husband Michel are looking forward to summer together on the farm. A shocking blow leaves Carol alone. The future is uncertain.

Description

THE OLIVE HARVEST takes us beyond the perimeters of her olive groves to where hunters, poets, bee-keepers, boars and gypsies abide. In search of the language of troubadours, the dark and sometimes barbarous heart of Provence is revealed. Nature and the generosity of the South of France's harvests offer a path to joy and an abundant resolution.

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