The boy who runs
Subtitle: the odyssey of Julius Achon
By: John Brant
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780553392159
Subjects: Runners (Sports); Biography; Child soldiers
Other titles: Odyssey of Julius Achon
Description: 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.