A Gap in Nature
Contributors: Peter Schouten (Illustrator)
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: November 15, 2001
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780434008193
First sentence: The first Maori arrived in Aotearoa, the archipelago now called New Zealand, around 1200, and in the next few centuries all of its eleven species of moa were hunted to extinction.