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Award-winning travel writer and illustrator, David Yeadon embarks with his wife, Anne on an exploration of the "lost word" of Basilicata, in the arch of Italy's boot. What is intended as a brief sojourn turns into an intriguing residency in the ancient hill village of Aliano, where Carlo Levi, author of the world-renowned memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli, was imprisoned by Mussolini for anti-Fascist activities. As the Yeadons become immersed in Aliano's rich tapestry of people, traditions, and festivals, reveling in the rituals and rhythms of the grape and olive harvests, the culinary delights, and other peculiarities of place, they discover that much of the pagan strangeness that Carlo Levi and other notable authors revealed still lurks beneath the beguiling surface of Basilicata.
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Ernie Bautista
reviewed Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village on January 15, 2008
Seasons in Basilicata
My Grandfather is from Basilicata which I recently visited...but not the Basilicata Yeadon describes. I had always pictured the place where Tomaso Marchese was born (Bella near Potenza) as a goat track and a few stone buildings, but Bella was a lovely hill town in the midst of verdant farmland, well as verdant as this province provides. The real Basilicata is a landscape craggy outcroppings and unforgiving weather with a population only a Carlo Levi in words or a Rosi in film could adequately describe.
The book has filled me with longing to go back and see Agliano and Matera and a hundred other places which transcend any description of what being "Italian" sets forth. Yeadon was so fortunate in his profession to spend four seasons there (although he cheated by leaving for Yorkshire in the inferno of the summer), and the reader's senses are bombarded by his vivid descriptions of food and music and landscapes. It's a beauty of a travel book, truly unique.
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