Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time /

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 P...

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Main Author: Mortenson, Greg
Other Authors: Relin, David Oliver
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mr. Mortenson's orbit
  • Failure
  • 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
  • People have spoken
  • Building bridges
  • Six days
  • Haji Ali's lesson
  • "Smile should be more than a memory"
  • Equilibrium
  • Mortenson in motion
  • Red velvet box
  • Cherry trees in the sand
  • Shrouded figure
  • Village called New York
  • Tea with the Taliban
  • Rumsfeld's shoes
  • "Enemy is ignorance"
  • Stones into schools
  • Acknowledgments.