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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... Telegraph Creek , because ... well , because I liked the name . I first heard of it in an article in Equinox ( " The Magazine of Canadian Discovery , " now defunct , unfortunately ) in which the writer had pointed out that map - makers ...
... Telegraph Creek was a kind of frontier outpost between the two countries . ) I was virtually alone in my own private ghost town , watching the river flow . Upstairs in the empty old building the silence seemed almost oppres- sive , and ...
... Telegraph Creek : a real live ( or dead ) ghost town . Sometimes it's me who's not real ; sometimes it's the rest of the world , but either way I always feel a sense of " alienation " toward everybody and everything . Even this place ...