The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

[Pages:126]The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

To my family

Contents

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Prologue THE PREPARATION WAS COMPLETE, so I waited. The muscles in...

Chapter One BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the...

Chapter Two WHEN MY FATHER, TRYWELL, was a young man, HE was...

Chapter Three IN JANUARY 1997, WHEN I was nine years OLD, OUR...

Chapter Four THE YEAR I TURNED thirteen marked the beginning of a...

Chapter Five DURING THIS TIME OF trouble, I discovered the bicycle dynamo.

Chapter Six DECEMBER ARRIVED WITH HEAVY clouds, black as oil, that gathered...

Chapter Seven THE NEXT WEEK, I received information better than any Christmas...

Chapter Eight NOT LONG AFTER THE radio report, my mother came home...

Chapter Nine MOST STUDENTS AT KACHOKOLO Secondary and Wimbe Primary stopped going...

Chapter Ten AS THE SCHOOL TERM approached, my father said nothing about...

Chapter Eleven THE NEXT DAY AFTER lunch I began putting everything together.

Chapter Twelve AS I EXPLAINED TO Rose, the windmill wouldn't work without...

Chapter Thirteen AFTER ALL THESE LONG months, I'd hoped that my father's...

Chapter Fourteen IN EARLY NOVEMBER 2006, some officials from the Malawi Teacher...

Chapter Fifteen WHEN WE ARRIVED AT the airport in Arusha, Soyapi helped...

Epilogue IN JUNE 2008, I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa,...

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Praise

Credits Copyright About the Publisher

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