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Title: The National Parks as You've Never Seen Them Before
Review: Melody Webb was a pioneering female in the National Park Service during the latter decades of the 20th century; woman superintendents and upper-level managers are now commonplace in that agency, but they definitely were not then. Her memoir deserves a wide readership on that account alone. But this is not a women's lib story. It is an insider's frank, critical, and also interesting account of office politics in an organization we seldom associate with offices or politics. Better yet, Webb is an engaging writer, who does not take herself too seriously, and whose native sense of humor comes through on every page. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the parks or the Park Service, in the changing places of women in recent decades, and above all for anybody who simply loves a good read about interesting people doing interesting jobs in the most interesting places in the world. Five stars, and six if they had 'em.
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