Dolphin Island (novel)

Dolphin Island

Cover of the first US edition
Author	Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist	Alex Schomburg
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Gollancz (UK) Holt, Rinehart and Winston (US)
Publication date	1963
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	186

This article is about a novel, for the video game, see Dolphin Island: Underwater Adventures

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.

See also

• John C. Lilly, dolphin communication and psychedelics researcher

External links

• Dolphin Island title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database