Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson 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-Greg Mortenson's 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 Mortenson's incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated 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. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world-one school at a time.Three Cups of Tea, co-authored by David Oliver Relin, is a #1 New York Times bestseller that has been translated into over two dozen languages. For his work, he has earned various honors, including the Kiriyama Prize and a James A. Fellowship named for James Michener. In November of 2012, he passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670034826 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670034827 |
| Title | Three Cups of Tea |
| Author | Greg Mortenson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2006-03-02 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Prizes | Winner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2007, Winner of Kiriyama Prize (Nonfiction) 2007, Runner-up for Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Nonfiction) 2007, Commended for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2011, Commended for Montana Book Award 2006 |
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