Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: beautifully written, a rarity in this literary genre

This is a wonderful memoir, beautifully and thoughtfully written, which is highly unusual for books about the far north. (Another exception that proves the rule would be The Barren Lands, about another part of northern Canada. You would think that it is written decades ago (except for the elegant writing), but it was published only in the last several years. One gets a real sense of the author's experiences, the people he lived with, what they ate, what they did, how they lived and worked. A real treat.