And another podcast – this one with Lapham’s Quarterly ‘World in Time’ and an excerpt from The Traveller. The excerpt is about Forster’s stunning theory about Polynesian migration (which he worked out by looking at the distribution of breadfruit trees and comparing Polynesian languages) – developed 200 years before DNA analysis proved it. A great example how wide his mind ranged.

click here to listen to Lapham’s Quarterly ‘World in Time’

click here to read excerpt