title: Sands of Seduction: Literate Beach Reading 101
author: Zane Segal
description: Zane Segal has been obsessed with traveling since his youth, in the process gaining inspiration for writing and profound appreciation for the myriad wonders of distant lands. Whether motorcycling through Eastern Europe, roving the deserts of Morocco, climbing Mount Sinai, skiing the Andes, or probing the high-country grandeur of North America, staying in five-stars or camping out under them, he has counted the days and nights spent on the road among his finest. He has celebrated the past nine New Years' Eves in Punta del Este, Uruguay, hard at work patrolling its sensuous playas, exotic hostelries, and gourmet eateries in order to research this novel's prime locations. These annual pilgrimages are part of thirteen trips within the last decade to Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, each lasting about a month. The author has lived in and explored Europe for over a year at various eras of his life, spent five months in North Africa and the Middle East, visited every American state and most Canadian provinces, toured many islands in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, resorted often along the coasts of Panama and Mexico, and enjoyed numerous sea voyages and trans-Atlantic crossings aboard liners as diverse as the four-masted Wind Star, the regal QE II, the elite Seabourn Pride, and the Communist-era Stefan Batory, flagship of the Polish passenger fleet. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Visual Design, he received a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from the University of Southern California. He has authored numerous printed articles, shot hundreds of published photographs, and written and produced a range of film and video projects. His hobbies include singing, playing guitar and piano, reading a variety of fiction, and running in excess of 600 miles per year. Utilizing his business background of real estate development and marketing, architecture and planning, music, photography, and media production in his writing, Zane splits time between his home port of Houston, Texas, his second home in Cordoba, Argentina, and the rest of the world, all with his enamorada Gracy.
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