Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace - one school at a time / Greg Mortensonan and David Oliver Relin

By: Mortenson, Greg [author]
Contributor(s): Relin, David Oliver [author]
Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2006Description: 349 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143038252Subject(s): Girls' schools -- Pakistan. | Girls' schools -- Afghanistan. | Humanitarian assistance, American -- Pakistan. | Humanitarian assistance, American -- AfghanistanDDC classification: 371.8220954
Contents:
In Mr. Mortenson's orbit -- Failure -- The wrong side of the river -- "Progress and perfection" -- Self-storage -- 580 letters, one check -- Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk -- Hard way home -- Beaten by the braldu -- The people have spoken -- Building bridges -- Six days -- Haji Ali's lesson -- "A smile should be more than a memory" -- Equilibrium -- Mortenson in motion -- Red velvet box -- Cherry trees in the sand -- Shrouded figure -- A village called New York -- Tea with the Taliban -- Rumsfeld's shoes -- "The enemy is ignorance" -- Stones into schools.
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.
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In Mr. Mortenson's orbit --
Failure --
The wrong side of the river --
"Progress and perfection" --
Self-storage --
580 letters, one check --
Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk --
Hard way home --
Beaten by the braldu --
The people have spoken --
Building bridges --
Six days --
Haji Ali's lesson --
"A smile should be more than a memory" --
Equilibrium --
Mortenson in motion --
Red velvet box --
Cherry trees in the sand --
Shrouded figure --
A village called New York --
Tea with the Taliban --
Rumsfeld's shoes --
"The enemy is ignorance" --
Stones into schools.

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.

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