[Excerpt from Riding The Golden Lion by Neil Peart]

I'm a big fan of Neil Peart's books; I've read and enjoyed all three, and it seems that each subsequent book is better than the last. He's currently working on his 4th book, Roadshow: Landscape With Drums, A Concert Tour by Motorcycle which is due out in September. If you've read his books you're probably aware that prior to publishing his first book, The Masked Rider, Neil wrote several privately distributed books. The Power Windows site has obtained an excerpt from one of these, Riding The Golden Lion. From the site:

As many die-hard Rush fans know, Neil Peart wrote five books which he distributed privately before publishing his first mass produced book, The Masked Rider. So far, only the cover of one of these private editions, The African Drum, has been widely seen, and only the titles of the other books have been known. I received an email from a fellow fan who has all of Neil Peart's privately published books. These are obviously extremenly rare, and he was kind enough to scan the cover and transcribe the first seven pages of Riding the Golden Lion. Enjoy! - Apr. 11, 2006

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