David Oliver Relin

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1) Second suns: two doctors and their amazing quest to restore sight and save lives

Author

Relin, David Oliver

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.

In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most...

2) Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

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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...

3) Three cups of tea: one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised...

4) Second suns: two trailblazing doctors and their quest to cure blindness, one pair of eyes at a time

Author

Relin, David Oliver

Publisher

The Experiment

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit...

5) Three cups of tea

Author

Thomson, Sarah L

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

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An adaptation of the bestselling book about the American, Greg Mortenson's building of over 60 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 1993, Greg Mortenson tried to climb K2. On the way down he became lost in the mountains of Pakistan and stumbled into a poor village. The village chief offers him three cups of tea, and his villagers nurse Mortenson back to health. Moved by their kindness, he promises to return and build a school for their children....

6) Tres tazas de té: la lucha de un hombre por promover la paz, escuela a escuela

Author

Mortenson, Greg

Language

Español

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An account of Greg Mortenson's campaign to build schools for girls in dangerous, remote, and anti-American Taliban territory in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This work is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man is changing the world. La verdadera e increible historia de un hombre y su campana humanitaria en territorio taliban.