Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
Book Review: Love & Live
Summary: 5 Stars
To understand better the world that we live in, and to replace our ignorance and haters with love and understanding of other cultures and religions every one of us should read this book. It would be wonderful to start with our middle and high school kids. This book should be read and discus in their English classes. Hopefully, our childBook Review: Don't miss this!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time" is a beautifully told story that I couldn't put down. It's inspirational, but also insightful, demonstrating how humanitarian interests and politician's goals of ending terrorism meet at a common root solution: allieviating poverty. Something we all need to learn more about and help with.
Book Review: Genuinely Compelling Account of One Man's Dedication in Offering Education to Fight Terrorism
Summary: 5 Stars
If a village elder offers a third cup of tea in the most far-flung part of Pakistan, this deceptively minor act reflects an intractable bond between the recipient and the giver. That elusive transaction is indicative of the remarkable life that mountain climber and humanitarian Greg Mortenson has led, so full in awakening revelations and exotic locales that this book's combination of spiritual and physical dimensions takes on the aura of a great storyteller spinning yarns of inconceivable adventures. However, co-written with Parade Magazine editor David Oliver Relin, Mortenson's story is anything but fiction, and the first half of his fascinating journey mesmerizes like a cross between James Hilton's classic tale of Shangri-La, Lost Horizon, and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.
In 1993, as a memorial tribute to his sister Christa, he went to the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan and attempted to scale K2, the world's highest mountain next to Everest. After more than two months on the mountain, he took a necessary detour to save a fellow climber and was then forced to descend the mountain quickly. Weak and exhausted, Mortenson was taken by two local Balti porters to Korphe, a remote Pakistani village of Shi'ite Muslims, who then took him under their wing and nursed him back to health. Several weeks into his recovery, he came to know the people of the village and saw how they could offer no schools to the children. Instead, tribal leader Haji Ali pointed to a mountain ledge where the children go with sticks and repeat, in the dirt with their sticks, the lessons they have been taught by a teacher who comes all too infrequently.
Mortenson made a promise to Haji Ali that he would come back and build these children a school. This was to become the beginning of the Central Asia Institute, based in Mortenson's hometown, Bozeman, Montana, as he recruited Jean Hoerni, a Swiss-born Silicon Valley philanthropist, to give $12,000 to accomplish his mission of building a school. In the course of this book, Mortenson and the curmudgeonly Hoerni, both climbers, develop a strong bond, and much of the book follows Mortenson as he travels back and forth to Pakistan to realize his objective. He has since erected fifty-five secular schools across the Muslim mountain region, amid tense relations with the Taliban, powerful Afghan opium warlords, angry Islamic clerics and even fellow Americans, conservatives who sent him hate mail for helping educate Muslim children.
Mortenson's message is that education and literacy for children globally is the real weapon against terrorism, showing how such investments create stability and bring socioeconomic reform. I must go with the consensus and call Mortenson a hero in the true sense, someone who offers inspiration through example that one resourceful person can make a difference for a people facing seemingly insurmountable odds. This is strongly recommended reading.
Book Review: A must read for all ages and nationalities
Summary: 5 Stars
This story was so enlightening; it gave me much to think about. Very inspiring and humbling. I'm thankful that a friend gave it to me to read ...Book Review: 3 cups of tea review
Summary: 5 Stars
This book should be required reading in all the schools in the USA and Canada. I have recommedmed it and loaned it out to many friends and fortunately gotten it back.