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ALSO BY GREG MORTENSON

Three Cups of Tea
ONE MANS MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE... ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME
(WITH DAVID OLIVER RELIN)

Three Cups of Tea
ONE MANS JOURNEY TO CHANGE THE WORLD... ONE CHILD AT A TIME
(THE YOUNG READERS EDITION, WITH DAVID OLIVER RELIN,
ADAPTED BY SARAH THOMSON)

Listen to the Wind
THE STORY OF DR. GREG AND THREE CUPS OF TEA
(WITH SUSAN L. ROTH, ILLUSTRATIONS BY SUSAN L. ROTH)

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First published in 2009 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Copyright Greg Mortenson, 2009

Foreword copyright Khaled Hosseini, 2009
All rights reserved

Portions of this book originally appeared in slightly different form as No Bachcheh Left Behind
by Kevin Fedarko, Outside magazine. Copyright Kevin Fedarko, 2008.
Map illustrations by Jim McMahon (pages viii-xi) and Jeffrey L. Ward (pages xii-xiii)

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mortenson, Greg.
Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and
Pakistan / Greg Mortenson.
p. cm.
Includes index.

eISBN : 978-1-101-15196-9

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To the noble people of Afghanistan and Pakistan
and to the 120 million school-age children in the world
who are deprived of their right of education

AFGHANISTAN PROVINCES & FEDERALLY ADMINISTERED TRIBAL AREAS

ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION WITHIN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN

Whos Who

Ali, Haji: Greg Mortensons first mentor and chief of Korphe village, Pakistan; passed away in 2001

Ali, Jahan: Granddaughter of Haji Ali and Central Asia Institutes first female student to graduate from high school

Ali, Niaz: Spiritual leader of the Kirghiz in the Wakhan, Afghanistan

Ali, Twaha: Haji Alis son and father of Jahan; from Korphe, Pakistan

Al-Zawahiri, Ayman: Egyptian physician; second in command of Al Qaeda

Baig, Faisal: Wakhi elder from Charpurson Valley, Pakistan, and the CAIs security manager

Baig, Nasreen: CAI student from Charpurson Valley who is now studying to be a maternal health-care worker

Baig, Saidullah: The CAIs manager in Charpurson Valley, Pakistan

bin Laden, Osama: Saudi Arabian leader of Al Qaeda who is now either in hiding or dead

Bishop, Tara: Greg Mortensons wife and a psychotherapist

Boi, Tashi: Village chief of Sarhad, in the Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan

Chabot, Doug: Climber, avalanche expert, and CAI volunteer

Chabot, Genevieve: CAI scholarship program manager; married to Doug Chabot

Chaudry, Shaukat Ali: Former Taliban member, now a teacher in the CAI girls school in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Dostum, General Rashid: Uzbek ethnic leader based in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

Ghani, Dr. Ashraf: Former minister of education of Afghanistan

Gulmarjan: CAI Afghan student killed by a land mine in 2003 at the age of twelve

Hoerni, Dr. Jean: Silicon transistor pioneer and cofounder of CAI with Greg Mortenson; passed away in 1997

Hosseini, Khaled: Physician, philanthropist, and best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hussain, Aziza: First maternal health-care worker in Charpurson Valley, Pakistan

Ibrahim, Haji Mohammed: Shura (elder) leader from Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan

Karimi, Wakil: CAI manager for Afghanistan

Karzai, Hamid: President of Afghanistan

Khan, Abdul Rashid: Amir (leader) of the Kirghiz people in the Wakhan Corridor, Afghanistan

Khan, Sadhar: Tajik leader in Badakshan who was CAIs first supporter in the region

Khan, Sarfraz: CAIs remote areas project manager; from Pakistan

Khan, Shah Ismael: Pir (leader) of the Wakhi people in Afghanistan

Khan, Wohid: Badakshan border security commander in Afghanistan

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