Three Cups Of Tea
'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, PakistanIn 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-191794-8
- EAN: 9780141917948
- Produktnummer: 17832511
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'911 KB
Über den Autor
Greg Mortenson is the director of the Central Asia Institute, and he spends several months each year building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He lives in Montana with his wife and two children.David Oliver Relin is a globe-trotting journalist who has won more than forty national awards for his writing and editing. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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