Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Snapshot of a Dying Continent

In his odyssey from Cairo to Cape Town, Theroux ventures through the best and the worst that this fabled continent has to offer. And if there's one overriding message that comes through it is that Africa is doomed. It is fading back into the bush and you get the feeling that perhaps that is the only answer to it. Make the continent a nature preserve and forget about it. Theroux is unstinting in his descriptions of the good and bad things he encounters in Africa and his fearlessness in getting behind the story is journalism at its best. It's also travel writing at its best and the reader comes away feeling he has personally accompanied the author on this epic journey. Theroux has done a heroic job here and his efforts and ordeals should be rewarded with the broadest readership.