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 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, 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
1 online resource (349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
9781429515474, 9781429522823, 9781101147085, 1429515473, 1429522828, 1101147083
310696326
In Mr. Mortenson's orbit
Failure
The 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
The people have spoken
Building bridges
Six days
Haji Ali's lesson
"A smile should be more than a memory"
Equilibrium
Mortenson in motion
Red velvet box
Cherry trees in the sand
Shrouded figure
A village called New York
Tea with the Taliban
Rumsfeld's shoes
"The enemy is ignorance"
Stones into schools
Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006
Includes index