Robert Kimber ( - )

Genre: Non-Fiction

Writer/environmentalist Robert Kimber lives in Temple, Maine with his wife Ruth Kimber. His book, Upcountry: Reflections from a Rural Life (1991) celebrated the 20 years he and his wife had lived on their farm in Temple. Two other books published in 1991 are his Made for the Country and A Canoeist's Sketchbook (scroll down) (republished in 2004).

His essay, "No Night Life," was published in The Quotable Moose (1994). In Living Wild and Domestic: The Education of a Hunter-Gardener (2002), Kimber discusses his philosophy and ethics of interacting with the natural world. He is also one of three editors of On Wilderness: Voices from Maine (2003). His essays/articles have appeared in Field and Stream, Down East and Country Journal.

Kimber and his wife Ruth have translated numerous books from German into English. During the 1980s and 1990s they were the translators for many Barron's Educational Series pet and pet care books. Their other translations include: A Prelude to the Long Happy Life of Maximilian Goodman: A Novel (1975); Tai Ki: To the Point of No Return (1976); The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era (1980); Vanishing Eden: The Plight of the Tropical Rainforest (1990); The Thirty Years Peace (1991); Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research (1993); Logic of Failure (1997); Stars and Planets: Identifying Them, Learning about Them, Experiencing Them (2000).

Kimber is an advocate for Maine's natural and wild lands. He is actively involved in the Western Maine Audubon Society and the Tumbledown Conservation Alliance. He is on the citizen advisory committee for The Northern Forest Lands and is on the national advisory committee for Americans for a Maine Woods National Park. His Nov. 2005 op-ed on the Plum Creek development planned for the Moosehead Lake region of Maine are available on the Natural Resource Council of Maine's website. Kimber was one of the recipients of the Natural Resources Council's 2003 Environmental Award.


Last Update: 05/31/2007

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