The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Persistence, Jury-Rigging, and Ingenuity Against All Odds

We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn’t make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard.

Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story