Background
He is the oldest son of the late environmentalist David R. Brower.
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Kenneth Brower
Edit Profilenonfiction writer author of The Starship
Career
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 his "rebellious" son George Dyson. According to WorldCat, it is in 553 libraries.
lieutenant has also been translated into Korean, Polish, Japanese, and Chinese. He answered that he was curious how George went from rebellious teenager to respected colleague.
George answered that it was because of Kenneth Brower.
Roughly, he said If you write a book describing a rebellious teenager about the only way they can then rebel is to become conventional. A lesser known fact is that Kenneth Brower either helped his father David Brower or outright edited many of the Sierra Club from the famous Sierra Club Exhibit Format Series including "Navajo Wildlands" by Stephen C. Jett with photographs by Philip Hyde. These books helped raise public awareness about the destruction of various wild places, brought a rapidly increasing flood of new members to the Sierra Club and to the environmental movement in general, besides reinventing the photography book and helping to establish color landscape photography as a fine art
Sierra Club (2001).
