title: Solomon Boy: An Island Journal: Adventures Among The People Of The Solomon Islands
author: Dave Hart
description: Dave earned a degree in Bible and Missions from Columbia International University. He has also enjoyed work as a hospital lab technician, a stone laborer, and an optical technician. Dave is now also a New York certified English teacher writing from the Capital region.
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  Also by Homer Hickam
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Keeper’s Son_
  
  
  _Torpedo Junction_
  
  
  _Rocket Boys_ (a.k.a. _October Sky_ )
  
  
  _Back to the Moon_
  
  
  _The Coalwood Way_
  
  
  _Sky of Stone_
  
  
  _We Are Not Afraid_
  
  
  
  
  
  ## A FURTHER HISTORICAL  
  NOTE AND A FEW  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  When Josh Thurlow and his boys moved from Killakeet to the Solomon Islands, it
  was incumbent upon me, as their chronicler, to read up on the new location.
  Pretty soon, books on these fascinating islands were stacked to the ceiling in
  my study. I’ve hung around a few Pacific islands and figured I already knew
  all there was to know, but it wasn’t long before I realized how wrong I was.
  The Solomons are unique. Since my focus was on the effect of World War II on
  these islands as well as the prewar colonial experience, my reading gradually
  coalesced to those two arenas. For readers interested in the war in the
  Solomons, among the best references are _The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943_ by
  William L. McGee, _Touched With Fire: The Lan