Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Review of Fagan's 'Rape of the Nile'

Fagan is a solid writer, as I said elsewhere. I love his conversational style : it does well to capture the diaries he uses as source material for his histories. His writing recalls all the best aspect of travel literature--adventure--but he also offers a rigorous, critical attitude. I consider Fagan a historian of bad history. He's giving antiquarian storytellers a second chance to be scientific.