Three cups of tea : causes, investigation, and prevention / Greg Monterson [and] David Oliver Relin

Includes index.

Introduction In Mr. Mortenson's Orbit -- Chapter 1 Failure -- Chapter 2 The wrong side of the river -- Chapter 3 "Progress and perfection" -- Chapter 4 Self-storage -- Chapter 5 580 letters, one check -- Chapter 6 Rawalpindi's rooftops at dusk -- Chapter 7 Hard way home -- Chapter 8 Beaten by the braldu -- 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 taliban -- Chapter 21 Rumsfeld's shoes -- Chapter 22 "The enemy is ignorance" -- Chapter 23 Stones into schools -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he 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--Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban. In a region where Americans are often feared and hated, he has survived kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, 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.--From publisher's description.