‘Boat People’, the book, is an in-depth look at the most extraordinary mass movement of people in modern history; the exodus from Vietnam from 1975 through to 1992. Former boat person, Carina Hoang, together with Michelle Lam, has compiled an array of first-person stories of survival, telling often harrowing tales of desperate ocean journeys by the more than one million people who escaped to Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia and other locations. Read more.

Provision video clip of the September journey. Filmed and produced by Alan Bachelli of Soverign Films, Western Australia. Read more.