Books

With books, one can visit so many places in the world. I have found another that I hope many people will read, Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin. The book was written by Relin about the work of Mortenson, who has built schools in isolated areas across high altitude portions of Pakistan. It is a great tale about a man who, after knowing the kindness of people in the remote village of Korphe, promised to build the small town a school. This led to the beginning of CAI, the Central Asia Institute, which Mortenson used to back the building of many schools. The book gives us great insight into the lives of these people from the region of the great mountains of the Karakoram in a way that no other book can. It is imperative that we Americans better understand this part of the world and its people, so I hope many, many people will read the book.
Read this book! I guarantee it will change the way you know these people from the areas of Pakistand and Afghanistan. Mortenson tells us that the way to defeat terrorism is never through violence, but through education, an idea that all the world needs to hear and understand.