Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Ranked #2 in Pakistan, Ranked #5 in Afghanistan — see more rankings.
In April 2011, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" called into question Greg Mortenson's work. The program alleged several inaccuracies in Three Cups of Tea, and its sequel, Stones into Schools, as well as financial improprieties in the operation of Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. Questions were also raised about Mortenson's claim that he got lost near K2 and ended up in Korphe; that he was captured by the Taliban in 1996; the number of... more
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Jennifer Steil Greg Mortenson has changed literally thousands and thousands of lives. (Source)
Nicholas Kristof I think Greg does a very good job of providing a more nuanced portrait of the Islamic world and what is possible in it. (Source)
Gretchen Peters I went to a refugee camp after 9/11 where people were living in tents and boiling grass to make tea and at least one family offered to let me sleep in their tent. (Source)
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Three Cups of Tea is ranked in the following categories:
- #95 in Book Club
- #41 in Business Communication
- #64 in Charisma
- #76 in Culture
- #75 in Current
- #80 in Current Affairs
- #23 in Education
- #37 in Human Rights
- #88 in Inspiration
- #55 in Inspiring
- #62 in International Relations
- #38 in Islam
- #34 in Justice
- #74 in Memoir
- #10 in Middle East
- #24 in Mountaineering
- #83 in Nonfiction
- #16 in Pakistan History
- #54 in Poverty
- #40 in Travel
- #94 in Travelogue
- #29 in True Stories
- #47 in True Story
- #49 in Wanderlust
- #62 in World
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