Judith I. (JudithKY) reviewed on 1/19/2009 + 8 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This is a book about an incredible man who makes a promise then keeps it.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about real people in Pakistan and Afghanistan. This book starts before 9/11 and the author is actually in Pakistan during the horrible days around the tragedy. The sympathy and protection he got from the locals, mostly Muslims, was very much like the outpouring my family received from the people around us in Europe. He also exposes one or two truths about promises not kept by others, including the US in the days after the Afghan war was declared finished so that Iraq could become the focus.

To quote Diane Sawyer, "If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes...we need to listen to Greg Mortenson.

But mostly it's about the promises he kept, and keeps on keeping. The promise to build schools in the isolated villages at the top of the world. Schools that are required to accept not only the boys, but the girls of the village as well.

Greg Mortenson is a hero for today.

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