Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell [FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION] 1990 • Houghton Mifflin

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell and ilustrated by Ted Lwvin

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION [1990] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Features full-color, full-page illustrated plates throughout.

*Ex-library copy.  Large hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket is mint.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book is clean and pages read like new.   Some faint tape remainder marks to cloth and stamps on text block / copyright page. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.

Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply.

More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.