Three Cups of Tea

by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

(Non-fiction, 2006)

In 1993, Greg Mortenson was the survivor of a failed mountain-climbing attempt, wandering lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. After he was nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew 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 accomplishments in a region where Americans are often feared and hated. Time Magazine “Asia Book of the Year;” Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assocation Nonfiction Award. 349 p.