Little Princes: One Man's Promise To Bring Home The Lost Children Of Nepal

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011-08-04. 320 pages. English. HarperTrue. The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor treks up dirt paths with photographs of the children, miraculously reuniting dozens of families. It's 2006, and Nepal is a country torn apart by war, greed, and corruption. Caught in the middle are the Nepalese children snatched and sold into slavery. The kidnappers promise their families that they will be taken to a safe haven from where they will eventually return. Some of the luckier ones are finally dumped in an orphanage, only to be found by Conor, an unlikely philanthropist. Conor's search for adventure on the cusp of 30 soon becomes a...