Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0670034827
ISBN 13
9780670034826
Category
370-379 Education
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
338
Subject
Mortenson, Greg. Girls' schools -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa. Girls' schools -- Afghanistan.
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Abstract
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher descrip
Description
Named Person: Greg Mortenson; Greg Mortenson
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin
ISBN: 9780143038252 0143038257 0670034827 9780670034826
OCLC Number: 83299454
Notes: Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006.
Includes index.
Awards: Kiriyama Prize Nonfiction Award.
Time Magazine Asia Book of The Year.
People Magazine - Critics Choice.
Publisher's Weekly - Starred Review.
Target Audience: 1220
Description: 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents: In Mr. Mortenson's orbit --
Failure --
The wrong side of the river --
"Progress and perfection" --
Self-storage --
580 letters, one check --
Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk --
Hard way home --
Beaten by the braldu --
The people have spoken --
Building bridges --
Six days --
Haji Ali's lesson --
"A smile should be more than a memory" --
Equilibrium --
Mortenson in motion --
Red velvet box --
Cherry trees in the sand --
Shrouded figure --
A village called New York --
Tea with the Taliban --
Rumsfeld's shoes --
"The enemy is ignorance" --
Stones into schools.
Other Titles: 3 cups of tea
Responsibility: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin
ISBN: 9780143038252 0143038257 0670034827 9780670034826
OCLC Number: 83299454
Notes: Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006.
Includes index.
Awards: Kiriyama Prize Nonfiction Award.
Time Magazine Asia Book of The Year.
People Magazine - Critics Choice.
Publisher's Weekly - Starred Review.
Target Audience: 1220
Description: 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents: In Mr. Mortenson's orbit --
Failure --
The wrong side of the river --
"Progress and perfection" --
Self-storage --
580 letters, one check --
Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk --
Hard way home --
Beaten by the braldu --
The people have spoken --
Building bridges --
Six days --
Haji Ali's lesson --
"A smile should be more than a memory" --
Equilibrium --
Mortenson in motion --
Red velvet box --
Cherry trees in the sand --
Shrouded figure --
A village called New York --
Tea with the Taliban --
Rumsfeld's shoes --
"The enemy is ignorance" --
Stones into schools.
Other Titles: 3 cups of tea
Responsibility: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
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