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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
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'David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood.

'For months David and his father walked across southern Sudan, barefoot, desperately searching for safety, food and water. They survived the perilous Sahara Desert crossing into Ethiopia only to be separated. David was taken in and trained as a child soldier, surviving the next 17 years of his life alone in refugee camps.

'Life was a relentless struggle against starvation, air bombings and people determined to kill him and his people. In 2004 David was offered a humanitarian visa as one of the Lost Boys of Sudan and was resettled to Australia.

'Traumatised by what he had seen and endured, he went about the slow and painful process of making a new life for himself-a life away from hunger, away from guns, away from death. A life where David is determined to improve the plight of his people both here in Australia and back in South Sudan.

'Told with frankness and humour, this is the powerful account of a young man's resilience. The story of a boy who refused to die.' (From the publisher's website.)

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 232p.
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      • Publication date: July 2012.
      ISBN: 9781743310250 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Lost Boy Finds New Life Robert Willson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 July 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of The Boy Who Wouldn't Die David Nyoul Vincent , Carol Nader , 2012 single work autobiography
Non-Fiction Fiona Capp , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 July 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 33)

— Review of The Boy Who Wouldn't Die David Nyoul Vincent , Carol Nader , 2012 single work autobiography
Non-Fiction Fiona Capp , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 July 2012; (p. 30) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 July 2012; (p. 33)

— Review of The Boy Who Wouldn't Die David Nyoul Vincent , Carol Nader , 2012 single work autobiography
Lost Boy Finds New Life Robert Willson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 July 2012; (p. 26)

— Review of The Boy Who Wouldn't Die David Nyoul Vincent , Carol Nader , 2012 single work autobiography
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  • ca. 1985-2005
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