The Garden of God 1923 is a novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The second in a trilogy of novels including The Blue Lagoon 1908 and The Gates of Morning 1925 The Garden of God is a story of romance and adventure inspired by the authors travels in the South Pacific. The novel was adapted into the film Return to the Blue Lagoon 1991 a sequel to the 1980 hit drama starring Brooke Shields. The whale boat and the dinghy lay together gunnels grinding as they lifted to the swell. ... Beyond and around from skyline to skyline the blue Pacific lay desolate beneath the day. They are dead. He was gazing at the forms on the dinghy the form of a girl with a child embraced in one arm and a youth. Clasping one another they seemed asleep. Aboard the whaling vessel Raratonga Arthur Lestrange discovers his longlost son and niece after years of searching. As they pull up alongside their fishing boat however he realizes they are too latethe shipwrecked youths have succumbed to the elements. Between them a child lies asleep offering some hope to the devastated father and crew. Visited by Dick and Emmeline in a dream Arthur endeavors to return to Palm Tree the island where they raised their son in peace. There the boy is brought up by his grandfather and a crewmember named Jim Kearney who keep him safe and teach him the ways of survival. When a beautiful Kanaka native named Karolin arrives from a nearby atoll he discovers something no one could have prepared him for love. Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers aro