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Kenneth Brower

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Kenneth Brower is an American nonfiction writer. He is the oldest son of the late environmentalist David R. Brower.

He is best known for his many books about the environment, national parks, and natural places, many of them in hundreds of libraries and by major publishers, including several titles in the series The Earth's Wild Places published by the Friends of the Earth in the 1970s. His most widely read book, on Yosemite, is in over 1200 worldCat libraries. Many of his books have been published by The National Geographic Society. Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, German, Spanish, and Hebrew.

He is also known for being the author of The Starship and the Canoe, a comparison of the lives of scientist Freeman Dyson and...more

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Books by Kenneth Brower

Average rating: 4.07 · 188 ratings · 28 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Starship & the Canoe 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild 3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Yosemite: An American Treasure by Kenneth Brower, National Geographic Society 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Wake Of The Whale 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Realms of the Sea 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	A Song for Satawal 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	American Legacy: Our National Forests by Kenneth Brower, National Geographic Society 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	One Earth: Photographed By More Than 80 Of The World's Best Photojournalists 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Yosemite: An American Treasure 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: