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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
4 reviews
ikiteahill's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This book is going on my list of books I'd recommend to literally anyone. I feel like even people who don't typically read a lot or say they don't like reading would enjoy this book. I learned way more about how electricity works than I ever expected to and it's made me curious to learn more and be more adventurous with experimenting and inventing and being resourceful and responsible with our resources.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Animal death, Body horror, and Medical content
Minor: Violence, Ableism, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Classism, Vomit, and Bullying
jessicamdawn's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, and Medical content
This book contains detailed imagery of people going through a famine and starvation. These were not available as content warnings, but they are a big part of William's life, so please be aware before you start reading.multilingual_s's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.0
An entertaining book that lives from the fresh and unusual perspective of the narrator. A few more illustrative sketches to go along with the technical descriptions would have been fine, but for me it was understandable. Especially because I took some electrical engineering courses at university this was a nice reminder what human ingenuity can achieve.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Vomit
Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, and Excrement
kimiwriter's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
4.5
The biography of William Kamkwamba who built a windmill in his village in Malawi in order to bring electricity, and eventually running water, to his family and neighbors. This is an amazing story about Kamkwamba's life and his scientific inquires and advancements despite the hardships and obstacles that got in his way of a traditional education.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death and Violence
Minor: Death
This is an account of true events, specifically the famine that affected Malawi in 2001 where many people starved and died.
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