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
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The Starship & the Canoe

4.13 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions
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Freeing Keiko: The Journey ...

3.91 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Yosemite: An American Treasure

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3.85 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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A Song for Satawal

4.13 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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The Wildness Within: Rememb...

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Wake of the Whale

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings4 editions
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Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Gre...

3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013
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One Earth: Photographed by ...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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The Winemaker's Marsh: Four...

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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001
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With Their Islands Around T...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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