Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12892 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10
• Format: Large Print
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 442 pages

Review

"This is an amazing, inspiring and heartwarming story! It's about harnessing the power not just of the wind, but of imagination and ingenuity. Those are the most important forces we have for saving our planet. William Kamkwamba is a hero for our age." --Walter Isaacson, author of EINSTEIN and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Review
"THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND is the inspiring story of a young man in Africa who used the only resources available to him to build a windmill and elevate the lives and spirits of those in his community. William Kamkwamba's achievements with wind energy should serve as a model of what one person, with an inspired idea, can do to tackle the crisis we face. His book tells a moving and exciting story."

About the Author
William Kamkwamba was born in1987 in Dowa, Malawi, and grew up on his family farm in Masitala Village, Wimbe, two and half hours northeast of Malawi's capital city. The second eldest of seven children, William has six sisters. He currently lives in Malawi but has been sponsored to study at international schools and colleges in Cambridge, UK and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Customer Reviews

librarians must buy!
This is an inspiring story about a Malawian teenager who built a electricity-generating windmill, switches and other parts needed to provide electricity to his home... all from parts of machines salvaged from a scrapyard. intriguing enough for adults, written in English simple enough for everyone, this book deserves to be read. I can't recommend it enough. I wish it had included the actual diagram for the first windmill, though.

On The Slow Side
The book did arrive but it took ten days. I was a little disappointed about that as it was a birthday present and as such it came two days later than expected and hoped for.