How do you think River of Memory will be useful for practising Buddhists in the West?

From the River of Memory series.
"...It teaches them exactly about the relevance of lineage. That the teachings only work precisely because they’ve been transmitted in a an unbroken lineage. Something we can draw real confidence from. And also indirectly it shows something of the pattern of how a Westerner could study and practise the Dharma.....its like a kind of archetype: there’s a set of archetypal patterns that can be discerned in what I studied and what I heard over the course of my life."