The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/796.42092/BRANT,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]
©2016
©2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780553392159, 0553392158
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Julius Achon is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's Fund, a charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life in rural Uganda. He was captured at 12 and turned into a boy soldier; then miraculously found a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. How these life jumps happened is told here