The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
By: Kamkwamba, William.
Contributor(s): Mealer, Bryan.
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.Description: 290, 16 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780061730337 (pbk.).Subject(s): Kamkwamba, William, 1987- | Electric power production -- Malawi | Inventors -- Malawi -- Biography | Mechanical engineers -- Malawi -- Biography | Rural electrification -- Malawi | Water-supply, Rural -- Malawi | Windmills -- Malawi | Malawi -- Rural conditionsGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: 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.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | TJ140.K36 A3 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000004982 |
Total holds: 0
"P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c2009.
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.