Three Cups of Tea - One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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| Verlag | Penguin UK |
| Auflage | 2008 |
| Seiten | 368 |
| Format | 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0141034262 |
| EAN | 9780141034263 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14103426EA |
'Here 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 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school.
"Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.
