Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A month ago
Ships From - Michigan
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2007
Seller Description
Book overview 'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 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.
Overview
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
ISBN: 9780143038252
Publisher Description
Tags
Be the first one to review
Review the book today!