The Many Lives of James Lovelock

"Utterly fascinating—a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."—Robert MacFarlane Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal archive, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a definitive, revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man. James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments t