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152 pages : illustrations, map New Zealand author Summary: Avaiki Tautau is a story set 8-900 years ago when Polynesian navigators made their last and most spectacular journeys to settle the last habitable landmass on Earth, Avaiki Tautau, later to be known as Aotearoa (New Zealand). The story follows Teipe, a boy otherwise destined to be a warrior had not he, his family and friends been chosen by his chief, Tamatea to accompany himself and others leave their native Rarotonga and begin again in the new avaiki, a future homeland that dangled beneath stars far to the southwest. (Author's website)