Sentinel Island: A Novel: By Benjamin Hoffmann - Hardcoverby Benjamin Hoffmann (Author), Alan J. Singerman (Translator) Located some 600 miles from the coast of India, Sentinel Island is the home of the last people entirely cut off from the modern world, the Sentinelese. No one knows where they come from, what language they speak, their beliefs. Only one thing is certain: for centuries they have violently rejected outsiders who set foot on their island, including Venetian travellers, British colonists,