Three Cups of Tea : One Mans Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

English

ISBN: 0143038257

EAN: 9780143038252

Category: Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering/Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief/Social Science / Women's Studies/Education / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/18/2007

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: The inspiring account of one mans campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia In 1993, following a failed attempt to ascend K2, Greg Mortenson was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers in Pakistan and promised to build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time-Mortensons one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. Award-winning journalist David Oliver Relin has collaborated on this spellbinding account of Mortensons incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. Over the following decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring story of how one man really is changing the world-one school at a time.

Awards: Kiriyama Prize – null  Kiriyama Prize – null  Kiriyama Prize – null 

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Three Cups of Tea : One Mans Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.87 inches

Width: 5.54 inches

Length: 8.42 inches

Weight: 13.16 oz

Pages: 368