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S'està carregant… Tres tasses de te : la missió d'un home per promoure la pau-- una escola per a aquest temps (2006)de Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
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No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. ![]() ![]() I usually have a tough time reading non fiction but this accessible book with an engaging topic is definitely an easy read. Mortenson's passion, the glimpse into Pakistan's remote region and culture, as well as the advocacy for women's education make for an engrossing read. It's all the more disappointing then when I found out, while wanting to know where the author was at almost 20 years later, that several passages had been invented or embellished for promotional purposes. Nonetheless, the theme of women's rights still resonates strongly in light of the abuses in Afghanistan and Iran still today. Drawing attention to their plight cannot be bad. What started as a quest to climb K2 became a much loftier goal for Greg Mortenson when he decided to become humanitarian extraordinaire. Fueled by losing his father early to cancer and losing his sister early to epilepsy, Mortenson knew he had to find a way to help the children of Baltistan obtain some semblance of an education. This would be his life's work. This would be his tribute to the family members he lost too soon. It didn't hurt that missionary work was imprinted on his brain when, as a newborn, his parents packed him up and relocated from Minnesota to Tanzania. Furthermore, Mortenson's father founded Tanzania's first teaching hospital, giving Mortenson big shoes to fill. This is the story we are led to believe when we first crack open Three Cups of Tea. Mortensen is too good to be true. If he wasn't saving a woman from death during childbirth, he was building a vocational center for women. If he wasn't building schools in record time, he was buying desks, teachers' salaries, and books. If he wasn't getting an American cataract surgeon to offer free surgeries, he was sending another doctor for specialized training or digging wells for the village of Skardu. Is there anything Mortensen can't do that didn't involve his broad shoulders or big hands? One of my favorite parts of Three Cups of Tea is Relin's mention of two other world travelers who happen to be women, Isabella Bird and Dervla Murphy. As an aside, here is what really irks me. Relin (remember him? the other author credited with writing Three Cups of Tea?); he readily admits he wrote Three Cups of Tea; that they were his words, but Mortenson had lived the story. Why doesn't Relin get more credit? Why doesn't he go on a book tour and lead Mortenson around like Exhibit A in show-and-tell? Is it because an investigation described Three Cups of Tea as fabricated and most likely an outright lie? Many of the reviews I read either praised Mortenson for his humanitarian work or vilified him for misappropriation of funds and exaggerating his experiences. The reviews talk about the person more than the actual writing. I admit, I got a little flack for reading Three Cups of Tea because of the scandal.
This is a wonderful book that gives the reader an unprecedented and very personal insight into a people that I had no knowledge of before reading it. Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers' hearts. "The story of how this happened is a cliffhanger as well as an first-hand introduction to the people and places of a region little understood by most Americans. The subtitle, "One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time," underscores the motivation behind his work." "Answering by delivering what his country will not, Mortenson is "fighting the war on terror the way I think it should be conducted," Relin writes. This inspiring, adventure-filled book makes that case admirably." Té l'adaptacióAbreujat aÉs respost aTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
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, 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 description. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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