Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Fun and informative

This book is a truly an easy, fun read. Not a biography of Captain Cook, it is a compelling hybrid of two genres: travelogue and history. It's informative and interesting, while managing to maintain a light touch and breezy style. Not unline Bill Bryson's "A Walk in the Woods" in its mix of humor and serious observation. One other similarity is the presence of the quirky friend. The quirky, hard-drinking, church-avoiding Roger provides comic relief and genuine insights which occasionally escape Horwitz.My main complaint with the book was that I wish Horwitz was a photographer as well as journalist; I wanted to see the places that he visited.