7.2 /10 1 Votes7.2
Country United Kingdom Publication date 1963 Originally published 1963 Genre Science Fiction Cover artist Alex Schomburg | 3.6/5 Language English Pages 186 Page count 186 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Similar Arthur C Clarke books, Science Fiction books |
Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea is a children's novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1963.
Summary
Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hovership makes an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the United States and an enterprising teenager named Johnny Clinton stows away on it. A few hours later, the craft crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The crew ("even the ship's cat") is offloaded onto lifeboats, leaving Johnny (who, as a stowaway, was not on the ship's manifest) adrift in the flotsam from the wreckage. His life is saved by the "People of the Sea"—dolphins. A school of these fantastic creatures guides him to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Johnny becomes involved with the work of a strange and fascinating research community where a brilliant professor tries to communicate with dolphins. Johnny learns skindiving and survives a typhoon—only to risk his life again, immediately afterwards, to get medical help for the people on the island.