The Blue Lagoon

About “The Blue Lagoon”

The novel opens with Mr. Button, an old sailor known as "Left-handed Pat," seated on a sea-chest playing a fiddle tune while punctuating it with heel taps on the deck. Dressed in dungaree trousers and a weathered jacket, the crab-like, round-shouldered Celt carries with him a lifelong belief in fairies despite decades at sea, having been shanghaied in Frisco and served under Yankee captains.