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If you liked Three Cups of Tea...
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build
schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American
reaches of Asia. In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted
survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American
climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through
Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in
and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished
Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day &
build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew
one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our
time—Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract
extremism by building schools, especially for girls,
throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
(From the jacket)
If you liked Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission
to Promote Peace One School at a Time
by Greg Mortensen, then try....
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