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Little Princes - One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal - cover

Little Princes - One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Conor Grennan

Verlag: HarperCollins e-books

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A young man embarks on a life-threatening mission to reunite Nepalese children with their families in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. 
 
In search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan embarked on a yearlong journey around the globe, beginning with a three-month stint volunteering at an orphanage in civil war-torn Nepal. But a shocking truth would forever change his life: these rambunctious, resilient children were not orphans at all but had been taken from their families by child traffickers who falsely promised to keep them safe from war before abandoning them in the teeming chaos of Kathmandu.  
 
For Conor, what started as a footloose ramble became a dangerous, dedicated mission to unite youngsters he had grown to love with the parents they had been stolen from. In Little Princes, Conor recounts a breathtaking adventure through the treacherous Nepalese mountains to bring the children home.
Verfügbar seit: 25.01.2011.
Drucklänge: 339 Seiten.

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