The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)

Kamkwamba, William

ISBN 10: 0061730335 / ISBN 13: 9780061730337

Verlag: Harper Collins, New York, NY, 2010

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 152880

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)
• Verlag: Harper Collins, New York, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0061730335
• ISBN-13: 9780061730337
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 2010
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

One of the co-authors tells his engaging and inspiring true story of hope, tenacity and imagination, in which as an African teenager he built a windmill from scraps, creating electricity for his village and a better life for himself and his family. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

William Kamkwamba is a New York Times bestselling author and innovator who designs development projects, including safe water delivery and educational access. William tells his journey of how he achieved his dream of bringing electricity, light, and the promise of a better life to his family and his village in his memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope, co-authored with Bryan Mealer. Since its debut, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has sold more than 1 million copies and has been translated into nearly twenty languages worldwide. It has been published in two additional editions, a young reader's version and a children's book. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Environmental Studies, William began work as a Global Fellow for the design firm IDEO.org. He is an entrepreneur, TED Fellow, and has worked with the WiderNet Project to develop appropriate technologies curriculums focused on bridging the gap between "knowing" and "doing" for young people in Malawi and across the world. William splits his time between the U.S. and Malawi and is currently working full-time with the Moving Windmills Project to bring the Moving Windmills Innovation Center to life in Kasungu, Malawi.

Bryan Mealer is the author of All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo. He is a former Associated Press staff correspondent and his work has appeared in several magazines, including Harper's and Esquire. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.