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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... face in profile , looking toward the two of us . Another was a color shot taken on the very last morning , August 10 , 1997 , by Jackie's Uncle Harry , just before Selena set out to drive to Toronto . It shows the three of us standing ...
... face strangers every day — to make the normal small talk while checking into a motel , say , or during a chance encounter with a friendly stranger . My first defensive persona was John Ellwood Taylor , after the alias I had created for ...
... face down and cut into separate stacks that were bound with elastic bands . Without asking any questions or trying to gather any " clues , " he fanned one of the stacks toward me and told me to choose five . I plucked them out in a way ...