Three Cups Of Tea [electronic resource] : One Man's Extraordinary Journey to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Mortenson, Greg2008
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Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, PakistanIn 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools especially for girls in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2008
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780141917948
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English
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BRN:
2551778