Three Cups of Tea

作者: Greg Mortenson （格雷戈·莫坦森）著

出版社: Penguin

出版时间: 2008-01

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780141034263

定价: 138.60

装帧: 平装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 368页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

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'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, Pakistan. In 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 built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. 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. INTRODUCTION IN MR. MORTENSON'S ORBIT

CHAPTER 1 FAILURE

CHAPTER 2 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER

CHAPTER 3 "PROGRESS AND PERFECTIONrr

CHAPTER 4 SELF-STORAGE

CHAPTER 5 580 LETTERS, ONE CHECK

CHAPTER 6 RAWALPINDI'S ROOi=TOPS AT DUSK

CHAPTER 7 HARD WAY HOME

CHAPTER 8 BEATEN BY THE [~RALDU

CHAPTER 9 THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

CHAPTER 10 BUILDING BRIDGES

CHAPTER 11 SIX DAYS

CHAPTER 12 HAJI ALI'S LESSON

CHAPTER 13 "A SMILE SHOULD BE MORE THAN A MEMORY"

CHAPTER 14 EQUILIBRIUM

CHAPTER 15 MORTENSON IN MOTION

CHAPTER 16 RED VELVET BOX

CHAPTER 17 CHERRY TREES IN THE SAND

CHAPTER 18 SHROUDED FIGURE

CHAPTER 19 A VILLAGE CALLED NEW YORK

CHAPTER 20 TEA WITH THE TALIBAN

CHAPTER 21 RUMSFELD'S SHOES

CHAPTER 22 "THE ENEMY IS IGNORANCE"

CHAPTER 23 STONES INTO SCHOOLS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX
内容简介:
'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, Pakistan. In 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 built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.
作者简介:
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.
目录:
INTRODUCTION IN MR. MORTENSON'S ORBIT

CHAPTER 1 FAILURE

CHAPTER 2 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER

CHAPTER 3 "PROGRESS AND PERFECTIONrr

CHAPTER 4 SELF-STORAGE

CHAPTER 5 580 LETTERS, ONE CHECK

CHAPTER 6 RAWALPINDI'S ROOi=TOPS AT DUSK

CHAPTER 7 HARD WAY HOME

CHAPTER 8 BEATEN BY THE [~RALDU

CHAPTER 9 THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

CHAPTER 10 BUILDING BRIDGES

CHAPTER 11 SIX DAYS

CHAPTER 12 HAJI ALI'S LESSON

CHAPTER 13 "A SMILE SHOULD BE MORE THAN A MEMORY"

CHAPTER 14 EQUILIBRIUM

CHAPTER 15 MORTENSON IN MOTION

CHAPTER 16 RED VELVET BOX

CHAPTER 17 CHERRY TREES IN THE SAND

CHAPTER 18 SHROUDED FIGURE

CHAPTER 19 A VILLAGE CALLED NEW YORK

CHAPTER 20 TEA WITH THE TALIBAN

CHAPTER 21 RUMSFELD'S SHOES

CHAPTER 22 "THE ENEMY IS IGNORANCE"

CHAPTER 23 STONES INTO SCHOOLS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX