by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143038252
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«Three Cups of Tea» is the nonfiction account by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, published by Penguin Books in paperback (349 pages, in English).
In 1993, mountaineer Greg Mortenson, lost and exhausted after attempting to summit K2, is taken in by a Pakistani village and promises to build it a school. The book recounts how that promise becomes a campaign to build schools, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, amid Taliban and harsh conditions.
It won the Kiriyama Prize in 2007 and was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The work was originally published in 2006; this edition is from 2007.
For readers of memoirs and nonfiction interested in humanitarian aid, education, and the recent history of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Greg Mortenson is an American professional speaker, writer, veteran, and former mountaineer. He is a co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit Central Asia Institute and the founder of the educational charity Pennies for Peace.
