敬上一杯茶，你是一個陌生人；

再奉第二杯，你是我們的朋友；

第三杯茶，你是我的傢人，我將用生命來保護你。

一個人，一個承諾，一段辛苦漫長的旅程，許許多多人的愛心，一個美麗的承諾，終於實踐。”

摩頓森把一次旅行化作瞭一個生命的承諾，從而改變瞭他在路途中所遇見的人的命運，並把這些美事通過文字將看似不相乾的人拉在一起，娓娓道來，作者樸素的心便很快讓你跳進《三杯茶》的友情世界裏去，令你也嗅到茶的清幽香味。他教曉我們愛是怎麼一迴事，因為有瞭愛，他纔在黑暗中看見星辰。這是一趟非比尋常的旅程，在這旅程上，不僅有他的腳步，也可以有你我的腳步，我們願意與摩頓森一起結伴同行嗎？——《中東現場》作者張翠容

'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, a mountaineer called Greg Mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. Moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. "Three Cups of Tea" is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of Pakistan and Afghanistan, just as the Taliban rose to power. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit.

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三杯茶

葛瑞格•摩頓森與大衛•奧利佛•瑞林（Greg Mortenson& David Oliver Relin）

葛瑞格憑《三杯茶》與村上春樹分獲2007年第11屆桐山環太平洋圖書奬。

大衛•奧利佛•瑞林是個遊曆世界的專欄作傢，其作品獲奬無數。

黃玉華，英國牛津大學比較文學暨普通語言學哲學碩士、波士頓大學行為神經科學博士。

校譯：嚴鼕鼕，畢業於清華大學，曾任2008年北京奧運會火炬傳遞珠峰火炬手。