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Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson • David Oliver Relin
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 2007
- PAPER
- 352 PAGES
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When American nurse Mortenson attempted to scale K2 in 1993, he found shelter for seven weeks in a remote Pakistani mountain village. In return, he set up the village's first school, a project which expanded into the 50-school Central Asia Institute in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson (with Along with co-author Relin) relates compelling anecdotes of villagers, the Taliban, schoolchildren and more, eventually arguing for efforts by the US to increase education and provide relief from Islamic fundamentalism.
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