Maui: the untold story (The New Hawaiki Book 1)

This is the epic historic story of Nukuroa, a young man born on Hawaiki, raised to be the Tohunga (High Priest) of his island but is plagued by a reoccurring dream that forces him to mount an expedition to a set of islands nestled in the southern Pacific Ocean - leaving his islands forever!. The first story occurs many generations before Nukuroa is born. It is about Maui and his brothers who, while on a deep sea fishing expedition, are thrown off course by a freak storm. After several exhausting days of battling the elements they fall asleep and drift aimlessly several thousand miles from their home island. The youngest brother Maui Hianga notices a bird while at the helm and instinctively turns their waka in the direction the bird came from. All the brothers awake and are drawn to an Island that is about to erupt into an epic battle for dominance in the centre of the Island. They are commanded by the spirit guardians to witness the destruction and to take with them a rock (te whatu a Pae) from the principal mountain that will dominate their histories for many generations until Nukuroa is born and is set on a course to return the rock to it's origins in the south. This is their story