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Originally Posted by treadlightly
For an autobiography, it was incomplete. Looking at a picture of her pilot licence at the end of the book, you see that she was married but there is no mention of that. I read here that she had a brother, who was also mysteriously absent. It makes the book feel more like an anthology of short stories of events that happened in her life. A more detailed and complete biography with background of the characters involved would actually have been more interesting.
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I am not convinced that a more thorough biography would have been better, especially for a "Travel/Adventure" theme. This book doesn't try to be an exhaustive autobiography. Instead it felt more like a reminiscence through her old journals and memories hitting some of here favorite or most memorable experiences. A full biography would be a good supplement to this, but I don't think the feelings that were developed in this book could have been brought through in the other format.