THREE CUPS OF TEA BY: GREG MORTENSON AND DAVID OLIVER RELIN

THREE CUPS OF TEA BY: GREG MORTENSON AND DAVID OLIVER RELIN

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Series #: Standalone
Hardcover/Paperback: Paperback
Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Education, Pakistan, History
Pages: 349
Published Date: January 2007
Condition: Good

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Description: Here (in Pakistan and Afghanistan), 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 1933 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an improvised Pakistan village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and it's extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools-especially for girls-in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.