# Kenneth Brower

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**Kenneth Brower** is an American [writer](/source/Writer) known for his [natural environment](/source/Natural_environment) writings. His published works include [articles](/source/Article_(publishing)) with the [National Geographic Society](/source/National_Geographic_Society),[1] [The Atlantic Monthly](/source/The_Atlantic),[2] [Smithsonian](/source/Smithsonian_(magazine)),[3] [Audubon](/source/Audubon_(magazine)),[4] and several other [periodicals](/source/Periodical).

Brower's articles have appeared in [National Geographic](/source/National_Geographic),[5] National Geographic Books,[1] [National Geographic Traveler](/source/National_Geographic_Traveler),[6] National Geographic History & Culture (online)[7] and [National Geographic Adventure](/source/National_Geographic_Adventure).[8] He has also published articles with [The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic) (Formerly known as *The Atlantic Monthly*).[2]

Brower is the author of several [books](/source/Book) about [environmental issues](/source/Environmental_issues) and [natural history](/source/Natural_history). His [publications](/source/Publication) include *The Starship and the Canoe* () about the [physicist](/source/Physicist) [Freeman Dyson](/source/Freeman_Dyson) and his son [George Dyson](/source/George_Dyson_(science_historian));[9] *Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild*, about the [Orca](/source/Orca), [Keiko](/source/Keiko_(Orca)), made famous by the [motion picture](/source/Motion_picture) [Free Willy](/source/Free_Willy);[10] And his book *Yosemite: An American Treasure*[1] is in over 1,200 [WorldCat](/source/WorldCat) libraries.[11]

Brower is the oldest son of [David Brower](/source/David_Brower), who was a prominent [environmentalist](/source/Environmentalist) and the [founder](/source/Organizational_founder) of many environmental organizations. His first job was working as an [editor](/source/Editor) for the [Exhibit Format series](#Exhibit_Format_series), published by [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books). He also was a contributing author and editor for [The Earth's Wild Places series](#The_Earth's_Wild_Places_series).[12][13]

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 [14] The Starship and the Canoe 1978 Holt, Rinehart and Winston [9] A Song for Satawal 1983 Harper & Roe [15] Yosemite: An American Treasure 1990 National Geographic Society [1] One Earth: Photographed by More Than 80 of the World's Best Photojournalists 1990 Collins Publishers [16] Realms of the Sea 1991 National Geographic Society [17] American Legacy: Our National Forests 1997 National Geographic Society [18] The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland 2001 Sierra Club Books · Random House [19] Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild 2005 Gotham Books [10] The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower 2012 Heyday Books [20] Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake 2013 Heyday Books [21] Curtsinger: Reflections on the Life and Adventures of Photographer Bill Curtsinger 2021 Peregrine Press [22]

### The Earth's Wild Places series

Title Year Author Co-author Editor Ref. Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place 1970 [23] Earth and the Great Weather: the Brooks Range 1971 [24] The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean 1971 [25] Guale, the Golden Coast of Georgia 1974 [26] Micronesia: Island Wilderness 1975 [27] Wake of the Whale 1979 [28] Micronesia, the Land, the People, and the Sea 1981 [29]

### Exhibit Format series

All books in this series were published by [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books)

Title Year Co-author Editor Ref. Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast 1964 [30] Everest, the West Ridge 1965 [31] Navajo Wildlands: As Long as the Rivers Shall Run 1967 [32] Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii 1967 [33] Baja California and the Geography of Hope 1967 [34]

## References

1. Brower, Kenneth (25 January 2016). ["What's in a name at Yosemite"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210322210225/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/160125-yosemite-names-ahwahnee-wawona-national-park). *National Geographic History & Culture*. Archived from [the original](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/160125-yosemite-names-ahwahnee-wawona-national-park) on March 22, 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

1. Brower, Kenneth (November 2022). ["Brave Thinkers (2011)"](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/brave-thinkers/307691/). *[The Atlantic](/source/The_Atlantic)* (subscription required)

1. Brower, Kenneth (February 2002). "The Artful Dodger". *[Smithsonian](/source/Smithsonian_(magazine))*

1. Brower, Kenneth (March 2004). ["Barn Owl"](https://www.fresnowildlife.org/images/pdf/magazinel.pdf). *[Audubon](/source/Audubon_(magazine))*. [California](/source/California): [National Audubon Society](/source/National_Audubon_Society). – via fresnowildlife.org.

1. Brower, Kenneth (March 2009). ["Still Blue"](https://archive.nationalgeographic.com/national-geographic/2009-mar/flipbook/134/). *[National Geographic](/source/National_Geographic)*. Vol. 215, no. 3. pp. 134–153. (subscription required)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1985). "The Big Island: Hawaii in Essence". *[National Geographic Traveler](/source/National_Geographic_Traveler)*. Vol. 2, no. 3. p. 30.

1. Brower, Kenneth (1 December 2014). ["Appreciation: Lessons From the Man Who Stopped Grand Canyon Dams"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210309113918/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/141202-grand-canyon-dams-colorado-river-martin-litton-conservation). *National Geographic History & Culture*. Archived from [the original](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/141202-grand-canyon-dams-colorado-river-martin-litton-conservation) on March 9, 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

1. Brower, Kenneth (1999). "Getting Lost on the West Coast". *[National Geographic Adventure](/source/National_Geographic_Adventure_(magazine))*. Vol. 1, no. 1.

1. Brower, Kenneth (1979). [*The Starship and the Canoe*](https://books.google.com/books?id=x3vRDwAAQBAJ). [Holt, Rinehart and Winston](/source/Holt_McDougal). ISBN 978-1-68051-279-3. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (2005). [*Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild*](https://books.google.com/books?id=qxQXAQAAIAAJ). [Gotham Books](/source/Avery_Publishing). ISBN 978-1-59240-1-475. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Hayden, Laura (21 June 2012). ["Q&A: Kenneth Brower Remembers His Father"](https://blogs.sierraclub.org/greenlife/2012/06/kenneth-brower-remembers-father-an-interview-with-david-browers-son.html). *[Sierra Club](/source/Sierra_Club)*. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

1. ["Kenneth Brower"](https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1649554627/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=6a288aa4). The Writers Directory, St. James Press, [Gale](/source/Gale_(publisher)). 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2022.

1. Brower, Kenneth (1974). [*With Their Islands Around Them*](https://books.google.com/books?id=mNKyAAAAIAAJ). The Earth's wild places. [Holt, Rinehart and Winston](/source/Holt,_Rinehart_and_Winston). ISBN 978-0-03-013121-9. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1983). [*A Song for Satawal*](https://books.google.com/books?id=n3WyAAAAIAAJ). [Harper & Roe](/source/Harper_(publisher)). ISBN 978-0-06-015093-8. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. [*One Earth: Photographed by More Than 80 of the World's Leading Photojournalists*](https://books.google.com/books?id=LBGOPwAACAAJ). [Collins Publishers](/source/Collins_Publishers). 1990. ISBN 978-0-00-637660-6. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1991). [*Realms of the Sea*](https://books.google.com/books?id=XgFHAAAAYAAJ). [National Geographic Society](/source/National_Geographic_Society). ISBN 978-0-87044-856-0. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1997). [*American Legacy: Our National Forests*](https://books.google.com/books?id=N9spAQAAMAAJ). [National Geographic Society](/source/National_Geographic_Society). ISBN 978-0-7922-4230-7. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (2001). [*The Winemaker's Marsh: Four Seasons in a Restored Wetland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YKwfAQAAIAAJ). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books);[Random House](/source/Random_House). ISBN 1-57805-058-8. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (2012). [*The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower*](https://books.google.com/books?id=biQwngAACAAJ). [Heyday Books](/source/Heyday_Books). ISBN 978-1-59714-186-4. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (2012). [*Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OILNMgEACAAJ). [Heyday Books](/source/Heyday_Books). ISBN 978-1-59714-228-1. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (2021). [*Curtsinger: Reflections on the Life and Adventures of Photographer Bill Curtsinger*](https://books.google.com/books?id=WXuLzgEACAAJ). Peregrine Press. ISBN 978-0-98835-5-088. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth & Wenkam, Robert (1979). [*Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place*](https://books.google.com/books?id=0V4DQgAACAAJ). The Earth's wild places. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth). ISBN 978-0-91389-004-2. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1971). [*Earth and the Great Weather: the Brooks Range*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7oJOuAAACAAJ). The Earth's wild places. [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth). ISBN 978-0-84150-101-0. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Hay, John (1971). [*The Primal Alliance: Earth and Ocean*](https://books.google.com/books?id=FcuDQgAACAAJ). The Earth's wild places. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth). ISBN 978-0-84150-102-7. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Hanie, Robert (1974). *Wake of the Whale*. Guale, the Golden Coast of Georgia. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth), [E. P. Dutton](/source/E._P._Dutton). ISBN 978-0-91389-002-8.

1. Brower, Kenneth & Wenkam, Robert (1975). [*Maui: The Last Hawaiian Place, Friends of the Earth*](https://books.google.com/books?id=r76cQAAACAAJ). The Earth's wild places. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth). ISBN 978-0-91389-013-4. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1979). [*Wake of the Whale*](https://books.google.com/books?id=egQpAQAAMAAJ). The Earth's wild places. [Friends of the Earth](/source/Friends_of_the_Earth), [E. P. Dutton](/source/E._P._Dutton). ISBN 978-0-52522-950-6. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Brower, Kenneth (1981). [*Micronesia, the Land, the People, and the Sea*](https://books.google.com/books?id=BjRmQgAACAAJ). Louisiana State Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-0992-2. – via [Google Books](/source/Google_Books)

1. Jeffers, Robinson (1964). *Not Man Apart: Photographs of the Big Sur Coast*. Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books). ISBN 978-0-88486-005-1.

1. Hornbein, Thomas F.; Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.; Brower, David (2013). *Everest, the West Ridge*. Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books). ISBN 978-1-59485-707-2.

1. Jett, Jett (1967). *Navajo Wildlands: As Long as the Rivers Shall Run*. Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books)

1. Wenkam, Robert & Brower, Kenneth (1967). *Kauai and the Park Country of Hawaii*. Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books)

1. Krutch, Joseph Wood (1967). *Baja California and the Geography of Hope*. Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series. Brower, Kenneth (ed.). [Sierra Club Books](/source/Sierra_Club_Books)

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