"Passion and peril are intertwined in this true tale of a bright young woman, driven to make the natural world a better place, while hindered not by physical challenges, but by human adversaries and predators. In Alaska she learns that her life and her work hang precariously in the balance of others. She experiences with great dismay the ways in which greed and ambition so easily place humanity and the environment in jeopardy. Early in their life...