| Dolphin Island | |
| Author: | Arthur C. Clarke |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Science fiction |
| Publisher: | Gollancz (UK) Holt, Rinehart and Winston (US) |
| Release Date: | 1964 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 186 |
Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea is a children's novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1964.[1]
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.