Seasons In Basilicata

A Year In A Southern Italian Hill Village

by David Yeadon

Inspired by Carlo Levi's powerful book CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI, about his days in the Italian province of Basilicata as a political prisoner in the '30s, David Yeadon moved to Levi's village of Aliano to write about the changes in the place. There Yeadon has an entirely different experience: his year in the mountainous and rugged Italian countryside is an idyllic one, full of friends and food and festivals. But he and his wife do find that the world Levy wrote about, with its pagan throwbacks and strange local customs, has not entirely disappeared.

Editions of Seasons In Basilicata

	ISBN 9780060531102	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2004	Price $1.00	Very Good
	ISBN 9780060531119	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2005	Price $5.99	New

Publisher Notes

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.