page_title: Julie Angus
section_title: Olive Odyssey
hierarchical_section_title: Julie Angus / Adventures / Olive Odyssey
caption_attribution_description: English: Colin and Julie's route through the Mediterranean
context_page_description: Julie Wafaei now Julie Angus is a Canadian rower, adventurer, writer, cyclist, and entrepreneur, married to the explorer Colin Angus.
  Julie’s undergraduate degree is from McMaster University, honours in biology and psychology; she graduated in 1997. Her Masters of Science is from the University of Victoria, where she specialized in molecular biology. She also studied at the University of Leeds for a year. After graduation she worked in the area of venture capital, technology transfer, and business development. She met Colin Angus in 2003, and they were married in 2007. Julie and Colin have two sons: Leif, born September 2010, and Oliver, born June 2014.
  Julie has completed a number of adventurers that include being the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland, cycling and rowing 7,000 km from Scotland to Syria and organizing a National Geographic sponsored expedition to research the history of the olive tree. Julie has received numerous awards including National Geographic Adventurer of the Year award, University of Victoria Distinguished Alumni Award, and McMaster University Young Alumni Award.
context_section_description: Also in 2011, Julie and Colin Angus and their young son Leif sailed from Spain to the Middle-East, retracing the domestication of the olive tree.  Their adventure is described in Julie's most recent book, "Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit that Seduced the World" 
  The book has received excellent reviews:
  "[An] unfailingly interesting odyssey." —Philip Marchand, National Post
  (2014-07-11)
  "[Olive Odyssey] is an engaging mix of history, food travelog, and botany lesson . . . There is much to enjoy here, especially for foodies and armchair historians." —Library Journal
  (2014-05-15)
  "It is a pleasure to try to keep up with this book; like its author, it covers an enormous amount of territory." —Christopher Bakken, Wall Street Journal
  (2014-05-30)
  "Angus excels in tracing the history of the olive: any botanist or cook will walk away from Olive Odyssey well-informed on the plant and its products." —Georgia Straight
  (2014-05-30)
  "A deeply informative biography of the olive, a versatile fruit that has played a huge role in the history and development of civilization." —Vancouver Sun
  (2014-05-30)
  "Olive Odyssey has many strengths: its contribution to scientific and historical research on olives, good food and travel writing, a sense of humour and an eye for detail, and a sense of adventure and exploration." —Literary Review of Canada
  (2014-05-30)
caption: Colin and Julie's route from Spain to Syria
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