The many lives of James Lovelock

James Lovelock has been many things: an environmentalist and inventor, an industrialist, NASA engineer and spy. Lovelock's life was a chronicle of twentieth century science, and somehow he seemed to have a hand in much of it. 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 this fascinating, sometimes contradictory man.