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(0)Greg Mortenson
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering 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 promise grew Mortenson's mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family.