The boy who harnessed the wind:

"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to b...

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Hauptverfasser: Kamkwamba, William 1987- (VerfasserIn), Mealer, Bryan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Dial Books for Young Readers [2012]
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Zusammenfassung:"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard scraps. Several years later he figured out how to use the windmill for irrigation purposes"...
Beschreibung:32 ungezählte Seiten 29 cm
ISBN:9780803735118

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