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 chronicles his personal odyssey and includes 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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... Park , inside the park , flocks of bighorn sheep were cropping at the lawns . All around was a high , majestic landscape of trees rising steeply in deep green brushstrokes up the sides of gray , craggy peaks , all under a bright sun and ...
... Park . The Going to the Sun Highway had been built at the urging of Joshua Logan , an early director of the park , to allow people easier access to the park's majestic scenery , and it was considered something of an engineering triumph ...
... park visitors center I had picked up a book called Desert Solitaire , by Edward Abbey , who had been a park ranger at Arches National Park in Utah during the ' 50s , and I was deeply impressed by his essays and stories set in the high ...