"The Garden of God" by H. De Vere Stacpoole is a romance novel published in 1923. This sequel to "The Blue Lagoon" follows the orphaned child of Dick and Emmeline, raised on a remote Pacific island by his grandfather and a roguish sailor. When a young woman from a neighboring island arrives after a storm, the boy grows into manhood alongside her. But cultural taboos and mounting tensions with her hostile tribe threaten their isolated paradise, leading toward an inevitable and dangerous confrontation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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