The Many Lives of James Lovelock : Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory

by Watts, Jonathan

Biography: science, technology & medicine

Published 11/09/2025 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Splendid' GUARDIAN'Utterly fascinating' ROBERT MACFARLANE'A scientific life as dissonant as it was remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMESDrawing 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.