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| Named Person: | Greg Mortenson |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Greg Mortenson; David Oliver Relin |
| ISBN: | 0670034827 9780670034826 9780143038252 0143038257 |
| OCLC Number: | 61859864 |
| Description: | 338 p., [17] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : In Mr. Mortenson's orbit -- ch. 1. Failure -- ch. 2. The wrong side of the river -- ch. 3. "Progress and perfection" -- ch. 4. Self-storage -- ch. 5. 580 letters, one check -- ch. 6. Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk -- ch. 7. Hard way home -- ch. 8. Beaten by the Braldu -- ch. 9. The people have spoken -- ch. 10. Building bridges -- ch. 11. Six days -- ch. 12. Haji Ali's lesson -- ch. 13. "A smile should be more than a memory" -- ch. 14. Equilibrium -- ch. 15. Mortenson in motion -- ch. 16. Red velvet box -- ch. 17. Cherry trees in the sand -- ch. 18. Shrouded figure -- ch. 19. A village called New York -- ch. 20. Tea with the Taliban -- ch. 21. Rumsfeld's shoes -- ch. 22. "The enemy is ignorance" -- ch. 23. Stones into schools -- Acknowledgments. |
| Responsibility: | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. |
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Abstract:
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, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, 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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Inspiring
A failed attempt to climb K2 and a desire to pay tribute to his younger sister who died at a far too early age, led Mortenson on an odyssey to build schools for girls in the most rural and poverty-stricken areas of the Himalaya. Education is the key to so many things and many girls were receiving none....
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A failed attempt to climb K2 and a desire to pay tribute to his younger sister who died at a far too early age, led Mortenson on an odyssey to build schools for girls in the most rural and poverty-stricken areas of the Himalaya. Education is the key to so many things and many girls were receiving none. Travel with Greg in his book 'Three cups of tea' and meet the citizens of a world so different from the one that we enjoy. Encounter the challenges that Mortenson faced in a pre and post 9/11 world. An inspirational tale of one man's determination to make a difference.
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