Complete historical novel of actual events between 1700 and the present, chiefly set in and around Preservation Inlet and Dusky Sound on the lower south-west coast of Fiordland, New Zealand. Centered on accounts of the earliest inhabitants; a largely forgotten people, the Maori, Captain Cooks visit, sealers, whalers, goldminers, adventurers, hunters and finally tourists as one discovers an old secret: hidden for eleven hundred years To a forgotten people: denied a recognized existence by modern interpretation and systematic destruction of everything that can be destroyed. Only old journals, written in discussion with old tribal elders, record a time when even the old Maori elders' the first Europeans talked to, recognized the existence of an organised and peaceable people group that existed long before even they arrived. If they cannot be avenged, if they can never regain their lands taken by violence, if they can never receive any modern justice while their conquerors receive millions in compensation - then at the very least they should never be forgotten.