Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greg Mortenson (Author), Khaled Hosseini (Foreword)
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Human Rights

• Rank: #130815 in Books
• Color: 9780670021154
• Brand: Viking
• Published on: 2009-12-01
• Released on: 2009-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.70" h x 5.90" w x 9.10" l, 1.55 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

• Penguin Group USA
• Follow Greg Mortenson as provides aid in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan after a 2005 earthquake
• Read about the Central Asia Institute's (CAI) efforts in Afghanistan which place Mortenson in the way of harm from Afghan warlords, militia commanders, tribal leaders, and Islamic clerics
• Learn how Mortenson survived a an 8-day armed abduction by the Taliban - all as he continues to further the progress of his 2-decade humanitarian effort
• Get a first-person account of Mortenson's work with his manager, Sarfraz Khan as they staked out the first schools in Badakhshan Province in the far northeast of Afghanistan