I very rarely give autobiographical books less than 4/5 stars.  As the passion, pain and history of the person writing it often overshadows any less than perfect structure.  However here I felt like the book didn’t know what it wanted to be it was past biography, part nature writing, part nature manifesto, as such this split focus meant that I felt disjointed reading it.  As a the reader I never felt like the writing explored any area deeply enough, giving the feeling of superficiality.  The author told me her thoughts/emotions and experience she didn’t show me and make me feel it.  Overall the reading of another persons experience is always interesting and makes me more understanding however I think the editor really did a disservice to the author and this should have been better edited and structured to be less confusing, less repetitive and less telling instead of showing.