TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
TI  - Three Cups of Tea:  - One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
SN  - 9780143038252
U1  - 371.82 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, United Kingdom
PB  - Penguin Books Ltd
KW  - Autobiographies
N2  - '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

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