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IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost 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, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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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.
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An account of Greg Mortenson's campaign to build schools for girls in dangerous, remote, and anti-American Taliban territory in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This work is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man is changing the world.
La verdadera e increible historia de un hombre y su campana humanitaria en territorio taliban.
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