Dolphin Island (novel)

Dolphin Island
1st edition cover
Author(s)	Arthur C. Clarke
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	1963
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-425-03431-3 (reissue edition)

This article is about a novel, for the video game, see Dolphin Island (video game)

Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1963.

Summary

Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hover ship makes an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the United States and an enterprising teenager named Johnny Clinton stows away on it. In the space of only a few hours the craft crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The crew ("even the ship's cat") is offloaded onto lifeboats, leaving Johnny (who, as a stowaway, they didn't know was on board) adrift in the flotsam from the hovercraft. 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 (Prof Kazan) 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.