Peter Frankopan is one of the globe’s brightest minds.

His best-selling Silk Roads: A New Global History has sold more than two million copies and his equally acclaimed The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story provides a major history of how a changing climate has dramatically shaped the development and demise of civilisations across time.

Finlay Macdonald joins the globally renowned historian in his first appearance on an Aotearoa New Zealand stage.