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Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson

EAN: 9780141034263
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 1 February 2008

Recommended Retail Price: R145

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'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.

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5 stars for 3 Cups of Tea Date: 2009-05-15
As the jacket copy promises, this is truly an extraordinary story,  an insight into an often misunderstood part of the world. Greg Mortenson aims to ...
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