“The Boat People: An Age Investigation” by Bruce Grant is a journalistic and analytical account of the Vietnamese refugee crisis of the late 1970s, when tens of thousands of people fled Vietnam by sea after the end of the Vietnam War. The book, produced as part of an investigation for The Age newspaper in Australia, documents the perilous journeys of the so-called “boat people,” the conditions in refugee camps across Southeast Asia, and the political, humanitarian, and moral challenges their plight raised for the international community.