Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: colonial / immigrant worldview parallels

This book delivers a fascinating account of a fragile ecosystem and an equally fragile human society dependent on it. Jill Ker's coming of age is put into a societal and ecological context, which stimulates my curiosity about Australia and her other works. Her outside look at the "colonial mentality" resonates with my own immigrant's view of the cultures where I have lived, and raises interesting societal questions applicable not only to Australia. "The Road from Coorain" is a fast read despite longer descriptive passages, and I highly recommend it.