Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealthfrom seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring halibut and salmonin Alaskas iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here they can change in an instant shaking the ground beneath your feet or