In this collection of short essays, Alice Hotopp tells the story of Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds who breed on desolate rocks along the Maine coast, and the heroic efforts of generations of biologists whose dedication has kept their nesting colonies safe and flourishing ever since the young biologist Steve Kress brought the first puffins back to Eastern Egg Rock in 1969. Interwoven with this story are personal stories of individuals who spend years of their lives on desolate rocks in the middle of the sea in order to maintain and protect breeding colonies of seabirds. Filled with insight, information and inspiration, Atlas of Kinship is a celebration of human effort and resolve, and an affirmation of hope in the face of ecological fear.