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I read Mountains Beyond Mountains (which is a biography of Paul Farmer), and thought that Paul Farmer is to Haiti as Greg Mortenson is to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Wow, wrong. Not to dis Mortenson--he does great humanitarian work, and he seems to do it in a way that's respectful of the local communities he works with (this is rare, IMHO). But Farmer is something else entirely.
The thing with Mountains Beyond Mountains is that you can get through the whole book without getting a sense of how radic ...more
The thing with Mountains Beyond Mountains is that you can get through the whole book without getting a sense of how radic ...more
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