A BILLION BUTTERFLIES A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

Narrator Shahjehan Khan's measured pace works well in imparting the author's goal to find a way to predict the monsoons in his home country of India. Listeners are presented with a thorough and entertaining autobiography of a boy who was born in a village without a school, who, nonetheless, secured an education, followed by positions at NASA, MIT, and the organization that shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Khan uses pacing to modulate the story of his career, which spans 50 years of educational, scientific, and technological achievements in weather and climate science. Khan's memoir illuminates a father, an academic, and a scientist whose objective is to use his work to make the world a better, more predictable place. E.J.F. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]