The book I read to research this post was Solomon’s Island by Matthew Fishbane which is a very good book that I bought from kindle. This book is about a search for the lost temple of Solomon on the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific by a journalist. He was American and received by e-mail a couple of YouTube links about a lost tribe of Israel who went to what was Lake Tangyanyka area in Africa and from there the Solomon Islands. There was apparently a lost temple built there too. He did find what he thought was a VHS video about it but when he sent it to an agency to convert it to DVD presumably received a phone call saying the tape appeared to be blank. This book is part of the kindle singles section where they have low cost e-books often under 100 pages. They are also often on niche subjects like this book. Those of a Jewish descent make up a large proportion of these islanders. It is the closest area to paradise but these islands have been mismanaged to the extent that they have one of the lowest average incomes in the world per worker. Cocanut trees grow faster than just about anywhere else in the world. They speak pidjin english a kind of phonetic version of english taught by missionaries. The islands were part of the British Empire and remain in the Commonwealth. Israel at a time when they were being pressured into leaving the West Bank and Gaza did make the most of the fact there were people here of Jewish descent and cultivate ties. It tried to do this with a lot of other countries too to get votes and support at the UN if any resolutions were voted on. In the case of these islands they were fairly unsuccessful in this respects with being voted against a number of times. It did however bring Jewish businessmen here to do business. This is an interesting book more interesting about the country than the temple. I do recommend it.
