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Ghost Rider
Travelling on the Healing Road
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by personal journeys and introspection amidst tragedy, and appreciate diary-style writings that explore the healing power of travel and solitude. This work may appeal to you if you're interested in music, given the author's background as the drummer for a famous rock band, and are drawn to themes of grief and rejuvenation through life's adventures.
Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart suffered family losses so devastating that they left him a ghost - no hope, meaning, faith, or desire to keep living. Finally, all he could decide was motion. He got on his BMW R1100GS motorcycle, and over the next 14 months, rode 55,000 miles, in search of a reason to live.
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Within 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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ISBN: 9781550225488
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2002
Country: Canada
Imprint: ECW Press,Canada
Edition: No Edition
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 764g
Pages: 460
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Neil Peart was the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush and the author of The Masked Rider, Traveling Music, Roadshow, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide, and, with Kevin J. Anderson, Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives.
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