Dolphin Island Author:Arthur C, Clark Sixteen year old Johnny Clinton, an enterprising citizen of the Earth of the future, stows away one night on a giant cargo hovership that has made an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the USA. In the space of only a few hours, the craft crashes into the Pacific, and Johnny's life is saved by the "People of the Sea", the dolphins. — A s... more »chool of these friendly and fascinating creatures guides him to an island on Australia's Barrier Reed. There Johnny becomes involved with the work of a most unusual research laboratory, learns skin-diving, and survives a typhoon, only to risk his life deliberately, immediately afterwards, seeking medical help for one of his scientist friends.« less