Mortenson, Greg.

Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time / 3 cups of tea. Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. - New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2006. - 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. - Three Cups of Tea International Literature .

Includes index. Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006.

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.

ISBN: 0143038257 (pbk) 9780143038252 (pbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Girls' schools
Girls' schools
Humanitarian assistance, American
Humanitarian assistance, American