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Having walked down the Appian Way for his acclaimed book Between Two Seas  Charles Lister found
himself irresistibly drawn to the land of contrasts that is the extreme south of Italy. A
French traveller once observed that Italy south of Naples is Africa  yet this had once been
Magna Graecia  a land of luxury  and home of the Sybarites. George Berkeley had visited in
search of tarantulas  and George Gissing  in a feverish dream  had imagined he was back in
Ancient Greece. So what is it like today  twenty-five centuries after it was a region studded
with Greek temples  where Hannibal and Pyrrhus had massacred thousands  and where Pythagoras
had tried to invent democracy? Lister had planned to travel by bicycle  but an Italian said he
was mad and insisted he take his moped. He travelled extensively  as engaged by the wines of
the region and the beauty of the local women as by the plethora of temples and the weight of
history. With great skill and in captivating prose  he reveals it to be a place haunted by its
extraordinary past  once great and famous  still beautiful  and  in places  now tragically
abandoned. Heel to Toe is a fascinating and utterly enjoyable portrait of a little-known and
much misunderstood part of Europe. It belongs firmly in the best traditions of English travel
writing.

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