Neil Peart sat down with Stephen Baldwin of the National Post recently to discuss his newest book - Far and Away: A Prize Every Time - which released earlier this month. From the article:

... Far and Away is a reflective, immersion-style travel diary detailing the musician’s motorcycle trips along the back roads of North America, Europe and South America. “When I write about history or nature or geology, it’s from a first-person point of view,” Peart says. “It’s me riding past a town [by motorcycle] and figuring out why something is the way it is.”

Like many books written by celebrities, the reader’s perception will be unavoidably linked with their perception of Peart. But with the exception of the author’s day job, this is by no means a rock ’n’ roll tome. Instead of sex and drugs, Peart uses Far and Away to express a deep appreciation of nature, through the Laurentian Mountains in deep winter to the vivid sunsets and barren deserts of Death Valley, Calif., to humble South American villages.

“I got terribly lost between Brazil and Argentina, but it caused a beautiful experience. ... I found myself lost in this little town in the corner of Brazil and basically ended up finding a place to stay just before the sun came down,” Peart says. “There was this combination of West African music and Brazilian music, and I had never heard that combination before. It was a transcendent moment for me. ... I had been lost, and now I was found.” ...

You can read the entire article/interview at this link. Far and Away is Peart's 5th full-length book and Neil spoke at length about it in the most recent update at NeilPeart.net. You can purchase your copy at this link.

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