Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadWithin a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. Peart’s journey of self-exile and exploration chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush. |
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... city to city, if they were within 100 miles or so, and on the afternoons before a show I often pedaled through the various cities to the local art museum, to feed my growing interest in paintings, art history, and African carvings. This ...
... cities and struck off into remote areas of rough roads and widely scattered little settlements. From that day on, I felt less like a traveller and more like an adventurer (or misadventurer), for I was very much aware that out here the ...
... city, with about 30,000 friendly people, judging by the ones I met while walking the downtown streets and poking around the shops for stickers and postcards. When Brutus and I traveled together, we often sought out those colorful, and ...
... city as I cruised the busy streets for an hour to get my bearings. However, like Vancouver or Seattle, the urban face of concrete, glass, and steel was softened by the frame of its natural setting: the sparkling blue of the Cook Inlet ...
... city to the ferry dock at Horseshoe Bay. A short boat-ride across the Strait of Georgia from the city of Vancouver lay the long mass of Vancouver Island, stretching north and west into the Pacific Ocean. The only parts of Vancouver ...