Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace...one school at a time

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  • Author: Mortenson, Greg , Relin, David Oliver
    Contributor:

    Barrell, Liz

    ,

    Malcolm, Jim

    Summary:

    The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools - especially for girls - that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth.

    Subject(s): Autobiography
    Original Publisher: London : Penguin, 2007 , Victoria Park, W.A. , Association for the Blind of W.A., 200
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9780803733923

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Barrell, Liz

Malcolm, Jim

Abstract

The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools - especially for girls - that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth.

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Autobiography
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London : Penguin, 2007

Victoria Park, W.A.

Association for the Blind of W.A., 200

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ISBN

9780803733923

9781597226240

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