Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell, 1960
Left alone on a remote island, a girl learns to hunt, build shelter and befriend the wild around her — a survival story drawn from a real castaway.
Scott O'Dell
O'Dell based the novel on the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a Native American woman who lived alone there for eighteen years until her removal in 1853.
Feels like nature, solitude and wonder.
What it costs to be the only one not counting the dead as profit.
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. Books by Scott O'Dell
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