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 enlarge | Manufacturer: Viking
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1554 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.82209549
ASIN: B000OT8GTO
Publication Date: March 22, 2007
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 When there is a Will, there is a Way. January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What Greg Mortenson has done shows how human will to make a difference and be of some help can break all the barriers. He faced both cultural and financial barriers and over came. A Persian poet says: Put step in the way, And the way will tell you how to go ahead. And Mortenson is a proof of how "the way" takes you ahead when you have a certain will but no clue how to proceed. It also shows how humanity stands far above all differences, be it cultural, lingual, religious ...
The story telling is obviously not the best I have ever read. Thats why I rate it 4. Otherwise, Greg Mortenson deserves 5+. He is already in my list of living heroes!
EXCELLENT..WORTHY READ! January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I FOUND THE BOOK FASCINATING. THE BOOK WAS INSPIRATIONAL AND VERY EDUCATIONAL REGARDING AFGHANISTAN AND THE RIGHT FOR WOMAN'S EQUALITY AND RIGHTS WITHIN THAT COUNTRY. TO ACHIEVE HIS GOALS AND DREAMS, WITH LITTLE MORE THAN A WISH AND PRAYER, PROVED THAT TENACITY DOES PAYS OFF. I DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT.
More than meets the eye... January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Greg Mortenson's personal transformation from a mountain climber to an agent of social change in Afghanistan is a fine reason to read this book.
Even more compelling is the extensive first-hand observation of a culture that remains a mystery to the West. As the US becomes increasingly engaged in military operations in Afghanistan, I urge readers to use this memoir to expand their understanding of a remote, foreign and strategically vital part of our world.
File under required reading for understanding complex current events.
just read it! January 5, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story is so important that I urge everyone I know to read this book. However, I also hand it to them with the caveat, "Just read it, even though the writing is clunky and amateurish at times." Once I got through it, gritting my teeth through some of the less elegant passages, I felt so happy to know Greg Mortensen and the amazing mission he is on. It is an unforgetable story. It is eye-opening and humbling and a much needed antidote to the narrow media portrayal of the people, politics and culture that Greg is spending his life to uplift. I only wish the writing served the sensitivity and urgency of the subject better. However...
So, I'll say it again, Please, just read the book, for the story, if not for the telling.
One Person Can Make a Difference January 5, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Three Cups of Tea" is the extraordinary story of how one American, Greg Mortension, fought terrorism through education. Business is conducted by drinking three cups of tea in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Mortenson, an experienced mountain climber, acknowledges defeat in his attempt to reach the peak of the K2 Mountain. Mortenson had planned to leave his younger sister Christa's necklace at the top of the peak in her memory. His sister had contracted meningitis as a young girl and never fully recovered.
The Korphe villagers take care of Mortenson as he is exhausted and ill. The Balti custom is that it is unforgivable to not extend hospitality.
The Korphe village does not have a school and Motneson witnesses the Korphe children learning while sitting on frosty ground in the open. Mortenson states "I felt like my heart was being torn out. There was fierceness in their desire to learn, despite how mightily everything was staked against them, that reminded me of Christa. I knew I had to do something." Over the next twelve years Mortenson was responsible for building 55 schools, primarily for girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The authors were Greg Mortenson, Director of the Central Asia Institute, former mountain climber and military veteran and David Oliver Relin, a journalist. Relin has won more than forty national awards for his writing and editing and is a frequent contributor to Parade and Skiing Magazine.
Mortenson began to make progress on his first school only after his personal life and initial fund raising efforts bottom out. He continued to hold on to his dream back in the United States when all but one of his 580 fund raising letters is rejected. Tom Brokaw was the only individual to return a letter with a contribution. Hortenson and Brokaw are both alumni of the University of South Dakota
Through an article in the American Himalayan Foundation newsletter, Dr. Jean Hoerni, an eccentric wealthy physicist and mountain climber learns of Mortenson's efforts. Hoerni took a chance and funded the first school. Hoerni had witnessed as a mountain climber the disparity between the beauty of the mountains and the harsh life of the people in the Karakorum.
Mortenson's drive and determination surmount cultural and language differences, regional politics, dangerous terrain, eight days of captivity and the Taliban.
I would recommend the book to all who believe that one ordinary person can not make a difference.
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