The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
By: Kamkwamba, William
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Contributor(s): Mealer, Bryan.
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TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2010Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.General Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c2009; "P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover.Description: 290, 16 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780061730337 (pbk.); 0061730335 (pbk.).Subject(s): Kamkwamba, William, 1987- | Windmills -- Malawi | Mechanical engineers -- Malawi -- Biography | Inventors -- Malawi -- Biography | Rural electrification -- Malawi | Water-supply, Rural -- Malawi | Electric power production -- Malawi | Malawi -- Rural conditionsSummary: Relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c2009.
"P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover.
Relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
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