{"product_id":"three-cups-of-tea-by-greg-mortenson-9780141034263","title":"Three Cups Of Tea","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOVER HALF A MILLION PAPERBACKS SOLD IN THE US since publication in 2007, 37 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'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.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e- Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistani village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThree Cups of Tea\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46380274811116,"sku":"9780141034263","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5144613482238.jpg?v=1744851304","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/three-cups-of-tea-by-greg-mortenson-9780141034263","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}