I've heard this is a good one. {Edited later to add: See Journal Entry #3 below!}


Amazon Editorial Review:

The inspiring account of one man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti- American reaches of Asia

In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson 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—Greg Mortenson’s one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.

Award-winning journalist David Oliver Relin has collaborated on this spellbinding account of Mortenson’s incredible accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. In pursuit of his goal, Mortenson has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, repeated 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. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

I haven't gotten to this one yet so it's off to my friend as she recovers from surgery! Enjoy C!

Edited January 26, 2008: It's back in my possession as my friend has finished it. She loved it and is very much interested in helping this man in some way to further his random act of kindness. I truly must get to this book soon!

Edited Feb 2008: This one is now on reserve to be gifted to someone on the RAGGAE's/Poobah's Spring Fling 2008!

I've read this now in order to pass it on to my friend at the Spring Fling 2008 and I have to say...WOW!
This is quite a story...of courage, drive, humanity, ambition and above all...PEACE. I am touched by the simplicity of this mans desire to change our future and the complexity of his unstoppable forward movement.
This book should be read by all and I will release many copies of Three Cups of Tea in order to pass the word along.

Edited January of 2009: This is the first copy I purchased, read and released. Since then there have been many more....Follow HERE to see the locations of all the copies of this wonderful book that I've released!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This was released to my friend at our Book Club Spring Fling. This is a late entry which should be OK as she hasn't journaled it as yet.