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Kenneth Broweris 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 (Formerlyknown 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 (1978) about the physicist Freeman Dyson andhis 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.
Bibliography
Books
| Title | Year | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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| 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 | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ |
