From The Washington Post
From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Jay Mathews Greg Mortenson’s first book, “Three Cups of Tea,” was a gravity-defying wide-screen wilderness adventure. It began with the author’s failed attempt to climb the world’s second-highest mountain. It included a daring rescue, bonding with an alien tribe in a tiny cliffside village and his establishment of several dozen schools in Taliban territory despite being kidnapped and threatened with death. That book, which came out in 2006, was a publishing-industry cliffhanger, too. Mortenson hated the subtitle Penguin insisted on: “One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism One School at a Time.” It sold nicely in hardcover, enough to merit a paperback edition and to persuade the publisher to insert Mortenson’s preferred subtitle: “One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time.” Mortenson was a nobody, the son of an American missionary in Africa. He had been a medi (click here for further information)
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