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Three cups of tea, one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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Three cups of tea, one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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eng

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contains biographical information

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Three cups of tea

Oclc number

83299454

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Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

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one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time

Summary

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

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3 cups of tea

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