This travel memoir tells the true story of one man s struggle to help a desolate Saharan village lift itself from poverty and into self-sufficiency. The stuff that dreams are made of and it s all real. Kirkus Reviews Seasons of Sand entertains right through its surprise, disturbing ending, and leaves one with a sense of an exotic place and its people everything that can be asked of a good travel book. Brad Newsham, San Francisco Chronicler Frank and humorous, filled with marvelous people and the details of his own daily life, Aebi s book tells an original tale. Publishers Weekly With the guts of Hemingway and the erudition of Sir Richard Burton, Aebi s writing is pure exhilaration. Amazing grace under pressure and a graceful zaniness pressed like wild flowers between so many pages, the result is deeply moving, wildly funny, and profoundly impressive. Paul William Roberts, River in the Desert"