"Three Cups of Tea" Selected as Summer
Reading for Incoming St. John’s Freshmen
June 24, 2009
For the fourth year in a row, incoming St. John’s University
freshmen have been assigned a special Summer Reading Project. Each
of them has received a copy of the inspiring best-seller, Three
Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a
Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, and will be
expected to discuss the book in several settings, including their
Discover New York class, in the fall.
Three Cups of Tea describes Mortenson’s experience in Pakistan
where he was stranded after failing in an attempt to climb the
world’s second highest mountain. After he wandered away from his
group, exhausted and without water, food or shelter of any kind, he
relied on the kindness of strangers living in an impoverished
village, who took him in and nursed him back to health.
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