Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear.
“If you really want to change a culture to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.”
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to used education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard.
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.
Read Alikes for Three Cups of Tea: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton; Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang; The Translator: A Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some cover wear.
“If you really want to change a culture to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.”
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to used education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard.
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.
Read Alikes for Three Cups of Tea: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton; Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang; The Translator: A Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
ISBN 978-0-14-303825-2
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
2006
*Winner of Kiriyama Prize
