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Audiobooks Blindness Nepal Prevention Blindness United States Prevention Girls' schools Afghanistan Girls' schools Pakistan Humanitarian assistance, American Afghanistan Humanitarian assistance, American Pakistan Mortenson, Greg Ophthalmology Nepal Biography Ophthalmology United States BiographyRelin, David Oliver.
Summary: 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. This book takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 610 RELMortenson, Greg.
Summary: Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build schools (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism-- poverty and ignorance-- Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.822 MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 371.822 MortensonMortenson, Greg.
Summary: Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.82 MORMortenson, Greg.
Summary: Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build school (especially for girls), throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - Mortenson must survive kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006