Format: | 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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Copyright: | 2006 |
ISBN: | 0143038257 (pb |
Publisher: | New York : Penguin Books, |
Physical Details: | 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
Notes: | Includes index. | Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006. |
Record No.: | 58851 |
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