A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION
CROWN AWARD 'Splendid' GUARDIAN 'Utterly fascinating' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'A scientific
life as dissonant as it was remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMES Drawing together the many influences
which shaped his life and thinking The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a unique biography of
one of the most important scientists of the modern age and the father of Gaia Theory. Based
on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal
papers and scientific archive Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography
of the fascinating sometimes contradictory man who changed the way we see the world.
