Irit Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from
Israel s coastal scenery. The book reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to
Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the plantation companies
describing the figures involved in them and analyzing their contribution to forming Palestine s
settlement landscape in the British Mandate period this book relates the intimate narrative of
settlements which were built as temporary structures but still leave lasting imprints on the
landscape.
