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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... wind fell off at last , for that cease- less , roaring wind had felt harsh and chaotic , at least to my little baby soul . In Bruce Chatwin's Songlines he writes about an Australian who goes crazy and starts shooting the wind , and I ...
... wind blew fierce and steady from the west , raising dust clouds along the roadside , and it was a " quartering " wind against me and the motor- cycle . Bad enough riding against a headwind that buffeted my helmet around and drove ...
... wind , and rain , and then stayed up to watch a most amazing elec- trical storm . The lightning flashes came so rapidly and constantly it lighted my way all around the house as I ran up and down stairs closing windows . Then I just lay ...