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Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
by
David Yeadon
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 M...more
Paperback, 480 pages
Published
July 5th 2005
by Harper Perennial
(first published July 6th 2004)
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Jan 17, 2008
Gina
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Italy lovers and off the beaten path nuts
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 d...more
I left this on my Currently Reading shelf for over a year, which gives you a clue that this was not the most gripping book I've ever read. I finally picked it up again and finished it, mainly for sentimental reasons - years ago I spent a fair amount of time quite near this region, and David Yeadon did capture lots of things about its particular flavor (and flavors - as in all of Italy, the food is one of the highlights, and he describes this mouthwateringly.) I felt he was a fairly long-winded b...more
This book was extremely valuable to me before taking my trip to the region-July,2010.
Not what I was thinking, and I didn't really get into this book at all.
Aug 02, 2010
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Really good - a different kind of travel book, about staying in one place, an out-of-the-way place for a year. I will read more of this author.
I started reading this book before we went to Italy. It's interesting and well written, but I'm not compelled to keep picking it up. I may finish it at some point.
This book dragged a little but I enjoyed the atmosphere of the small towns in Italy where the author lived.
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