The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope /

Kamkwamba, William, 1987-

The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. - 1st Harper Perennial ed. - New York : Harper Perennial, 2010 - 290, 16 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2009 by William Morrow"--T.p. verso.

An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.

9780061730320 (hbk.) 0061730327 (hbk.) 9780061730337 0061730335 0061730335 (pbk.) 9780061730337 (pbk.)

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Kamkwamba, William, 1987-


Mechanical engineers--Malawi--Biography.
Inventors--Malawi--Biography.
Windmills--Malawi.
Water-supply, Rural--Malawi.
Rural electrification--Malawi.
Electric power production--Malawi.


Malawi--Rural conditions.

B TJ 140 / K15b 2010

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