Travel with Rick Steves · Saturday, September 5, 2026
James Grant Kerkens, an expert in Polynesian culture and history, notes that the geopolitics of the Pacific have become significantly important again, for the first time since World War II.
“James Grant Kerkens' studies took him from Scotland to live on the remote Polynesian outpost of Easter Island.”
“The geopolitics of the Pacific, for really the first time, certainly since World War II, has suddenly become extremely important again.”