The Blue Lagoon

In the nineteenth century, on the Pacific Ocean, the sailing ship carrying two eight-year-old cousins, Dick and Emmeline, towards San Francisco catches fire at sea. The children escape in a small boat with Paddy Button, an old Irish sailor, and the fog separates them from the other boats. They land on a desert island, surrounded by a coral reef that shelters a blue lagoon. Paddy fishes, cooks and looks after them. The years pass: with no school and no society to explain the world to them, the children grow up in freedom, and their feelings for each other change. An adventure novel about nature, innocence and the discovery of love.