| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service. By Melody Webb. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. 272 pages. $39.95.
The fifth chapter of this memoir reminded me of something Thoreau once wrote about the Great Pyramids. Each Pyramid, he observed, was an expensive tomb "for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."	1
In this case the pyramid, so to speak, was Lyndon B. Johnson Historical National Park, where Melody Webb was site superintendent from 1989 to 1992. LBJ is buried there, which improves the pyramid metaphor, and the place is indeed an expensive monument to a terribly ambitious man. (Whether he was a booby who deserved to end up as dog food I feel unqualified to say.)	. . .

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