01655cam a2200229 4500 46356518 TxAuBib 20090211120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780143038252 trade pbk. $15.00 0143038257 trade pbk. $15.00 TxAuBib MORTENSON, GREG. Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time / . 3 cups of tea. New York : Penguin Books, 2007. 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Originally published in the USA by Viking Penguin, 2006. Includes index. 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 our time--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, death threats, and wrenching separations from his wife and children. But his success speaks for itself--at last count, his Central Asia Institute had built fifty-five schools.--From publisher description. 20090211.