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In THREE CUPS OF TEA: One man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time Greg Mortenson and acclaimed journalist David Oliver Relin recount the unlikely journey that led Mortenson from a failed attempt to climb pakistan's K2, the world's second highest mountain, to successfully building schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.  By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to fight terrorism with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote villages in central Asia.  THREE CUPS OF TEA is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world - one school at a time.

Relin is a graduate of Vassar and was awarded the prestigious Teaching/Writing Fellowship at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  After Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship to support his groundbreaking 1992 bicycle trip the length of Vietnam.  He spent two additional years reporting about Vietnam opening to the world, while he was based in Hue, Vietnam's former imperial capital. 

For two decades, Relin has focused on reporting about social issues and their effect on children, both in the U.S. and around the world.  He is currently a Contributing Editor for Parade and Skiing Magazine.  He has won dozens of national awards.  His interviews with children soldiers (including a profile of teenager Ishmael Beah, who would later write the bestseller A Long Way Gone) have been included in Amnesty International reports.

Relin is currently at work on a secret book about food, a children's book with the artist Amy Ruppel, and a novel about Vietnam.  David Oliver Relin is lucky enough to live in Portland, Oregon.

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