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

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Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
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one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time
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Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Title variation
3 cups of tea
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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
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
Study program name
Accelerated Reader AR

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