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

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

Label
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
Title
Three cups of tea
Title remainder
one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
Statement of responsibility
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Title variation
3 cups of tea
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
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
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
RNL
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Mortenson, Greg
Dewey number
371.822/09549
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
Intended audience
1220L
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
UG
LC call number
LC2330
LC item number
.M67 2007
Literary form
non fiction
Reading level
8.2
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Relin, David Oliver
Study program name
Accelerated Reader AR
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Mortenson, Greg
  • Girls' schools
  • Girls' schools
  • Humanitarian assistance, American
  • Humanitarian assistance, American
Label
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006
  • Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
621075
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780143038252
Isbn Type
(pbk)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780143038252
  • (OCoLC)83299454
Label
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Publication
Note
  • Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006
  • Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
621075
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780143038252
Isbn Type
(pbk)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780143038252
  • (OCoLC)83299454

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