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The Boy Who Runs : The Odyssey of Julius Achon by John Brant is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Boy Who Runs : The Odyssey of Julius Achon about?
In the tradition of Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation by way of Christopher McDougall's Born to Run, this is the inspirational true story of the Ugandan boy soldier who became a world-renowned runner, then found his calling as director of a world-renowned African children's charity.“Julius can't remember who first saw the men. He heard no warning sounds—no dog barking or twig snapping. Until this point, events had moved too swiftly for Julius to be afraid, but now panic seized him. In another instant, he realized that his old life was finished.” Thus begins the extraordinary odyssey of Julius Achon, a journey that takes a barefoot twelve-year-old boy from a village in northern Uganda to the rebel camp of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, where he was made a boy soldier, and then, miraculously, to a career as one of the world's foremost middle-distance runners. But when a devastating tragedy prevents Julius from pursuing the gold at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he is once again set adrift and forced to forge a new path for himself, finally finding his true calling as an internationally recognized humanitarian. Today, Julius is the director of the Achon Uganda Children's
Who reads The Boy Who Runs : The Odyssey of Julius Achon?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Brant
- Publisher
- New York: Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780553392166
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (146 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14