Kenneth Brower is an American writer known for his natural environment writings. His published works include articles with the National Geographic Society, The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Audubon, and several other periodicals.
Brower's articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Books, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic History & Culture (online) and National Geographic Adventure. He has also published articles with The Atlantic (Formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly).
Brower is the author of several books about environmental issues and natural history. His publications include The Starship and the Canoe () about the physicist Freeman Dyson and his son George Dyson; Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild, about the Orca, Keiko, made famous by the motion picture Free Willy; And his book Yosemite: An American Treasure is in over 1,200 WorldCat libraries.
Brower is the oldest son of David Brower, who was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations. His first job was working as an editor for the Exhibit Format series, published by Sierra Club Books. He also was a contributing author and editor for The Earth's Wild Places series.
Brower's career spans decades, this is list of his published works.
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Books
+ Title Year Publisher With Their Islands Around Them 1974 Holt, Rinehart and Winston The Starship and the Canoe 1978 Holt, Rinehart and Winston A Song for Satawal 1983 Harper & Roe Yosemite: An American Treasure 1990 National Geographic Society One Earth: Photographed by More Than 80 of the World's Best Photojournalists 1990 Collins Publishers Realms of the Sea 1991 National Geographic Society American Legacy: Our National Forests 1997 National Geographic Society The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland 2001 Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild 2005 Gotham Books The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower 2012 Heyday Books Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake 2013 Heyday Books Curtsinger: Reflections on the Life and Adventures of Photographer Bill Curtsinger 2021 Peregrine Press
The Earth's Wild Places series
+ Title Year Author Co-author Editor Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place 1970 Earth and the Great Weather: the Brooks Range 1971 The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean 1971 Guale, the Golden Coast of Georgia 1974 Micronesia: Island Wilderness 1975 Wake of the Whale 1979 Micronesia, the Land, the People, and the Sea 1981
Exhibit Format series All books in this series were published by Sierra Club Books
+ Title Year Co-author Editor Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast 1964 Everest, the West Ridge 1965 Navajo Wildlands: As Long as the Rivers Shall Run 1967 Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii 1967 Baja California and the Geography of Hope 1967
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