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| 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, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, 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 description. |
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David Oliver Relin · Greg Mortenson |
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General |
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Biography & Autobiography |
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Bloomsbury Review: "It is not often that a sense of beauty and humanity creep into chronicles about so-called war zones like Afghanistan. Perhaps this is the real beauty of THREE CUPS OF TEA: Mortenson's mission is a relentlessly positive one, and his ability to reveal the beauty and refuse to accept the brutal reality around him is an inspiring, heroic, and at times even crazy pursuit for the positive to become the norm in places that have taken their fair share of neglect." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Compact Disc
- Unabridged
- June 30, 2006
- Tantor Media Inc
- 6.25"(h) x 6.75"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.8 lbs.
- 9781400132515
, - Audio - MP3
- Unabridged
- June 30, 2006
- Tantor Media Inc
- 7.5"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.25 lbs.
- 9781400152513
, - Hardcover
- 338
- March 02, 2006
- Viking Pr
- 9.25"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 1.3 lbs.
- 9780670034826
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 349
- January 30, 2007
- Penguin Group USA
- 8.5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.8 lbs.
- 9780143038252
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