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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... writing , experimenting with different approaches to telling the story of a journey . My interest in writing had begun with composing lyrics for the band , and had grown from a taste for writing letters into a serious love of stringing ...
... writing about Canada by ā¯¯visitors . " ( The title came from a story by another American writer , Wallace Stegner , whose writing I would also come to love after that first taste of his work . ) The opening of London's story , " In a ...
... writing a book about my adventures with Brutus on the Test For Echo tour , but now - I just don't care . It has become clear to me that whatever was most central to my life before is now the most remote . That means drumming and writing ...