驭风少年 [正版]驭风少年 英文原版 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 美国前副总统阿尔戈尔

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书名：The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind驭风少年
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数860L
作者：William Kamkwamba；Bryan Mealer
出版社名称：Puffin Books
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780147510426
商品尺寸：13.2 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：304
★我尝试过，我做到了！科学让我变得很酷！
★在怪兽与巫师一起跳舞的奇幻大陆上，相信梦想、不怕失败的快乐少年用双手改变命运。
★美国前副总统阿尔·戈尔诚挚推荐。

非洲少年威廉·坎宽巴与美国记者布赖恩·米勒合著本书The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind《驭风少年》，用自己排除万难、动手打造发电风车的经历，讲述渴求知识、坚持梦想是如何帮助人们改变个人及家乡命运，并创造未来的。I tried, and I made it；有梦想，才会有未来！

媒体评论：
我们应该将威廉·坎宽巴发明风车发电机的事迹作为榜样，每一个有想法的人都可以从他身上学到面对困难的勇气。──阿尔·戈尔，美国前副总统暨诺贝尔和平奖得主

这是一个引人入胜的故事，写得很生动，会激发孩子的无限好奇。
——美国《学校图书馆月刊》

我是在科学论坛上认识坎宽巴的。当时他的英语很不好，在人面前也很紧张。但这并没有什么大不了的，他的故事感动了在场的所有人。这本书的着眼点在于：一个成功的人可以激励更多人来开创并掌握自己的未来。——克里斯·安德森，科学论坛的主办人之一

非常好的一本书。讲述了一个贫穷的年轻人不畏艰险，敢于创新的故事。通过艰苦不懈的努力，威廉终于把自己的想法变成了现实。每个有梦想的年轻人都应该读读这本书。
——人文学者卡梅隆·辛克莱尔

The New York Times bestselling memoir of the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village adapted for young readers. Now available in paperback!
When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.
Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.

Review
"[An] inspiring story of curiosity and ingenuity." --Publishers Weekly

"This book will appeal to adults eager to impart an uplifting Third World human-interest story, but it is also sure to resonate with children who will simply love the curiosity, resilience and resourcefulness of this doughty African youth." -- Wall Street Journal

"A powerful, gorgeously illustrated children's picture book." --The Boston Globe

"This is a dynamic portrait of a young person whose connection to the land, concern for his community, and drive to solve problems offer an inspiring model." --School Library Journal

"Zunon illustrates handsomely, with contrasting cut-paper-collage details and broad, sere landscapes painted in visibly textured oils." -- Kirkus

"This picture book in accessible free verse will draw kids who love to construct their own engineering gadgets." -- Booklist

"Cooperative Children's Book Center's 2013 Best-of-the-year list." -- CCBC
这是一本令孩子、老人、总统和商界领袖都感慨万千的书：生活很艰难，我没有变坏。

“驭风少年”坎宽巴出生在非洲东南部内的马拉维，这里被联合国列为世界不发达国家之一，巫术、饥荒和瘟疫是这片土地的关键词。坎宽巴小学毕业就辍学在家了，但他仅凭对知识的好奇心和图书馆里的几本科学教材，就用各种废铜烂铁造出了风车发电机。

坎宽巴的故事被渐渐传播开来，不仅为他自己赢得了改变命运的机会，更他向着改变祖国的梦想又进一步，同时还鼓舞着全世界每一个正在奋斗的人。
威廉·坎宽巴，1987年出生于非洲马拉维，凭借自制的风车发电机获得了世界的关注。2007年他在坦桑尼亚参加了旨在“以思想的力量改变世界”的TED全球论坛，还因此登上了《华尔街日报》，他的发明也被放在芝加哥科学工业博物馆里展出。坎宽巴目前就读于美国新罕布什尔州的达特茅斯学院。
William Kamkwamba recently graduated from Dartmouth College. The original version of his memoir The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind was a New York Times Bestseller and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. He divides his time between Malawi and San Francisco, California.

布赖恩·米勒，毕业于美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，前美联社记者，为《哈泼斯》和《君子》等杂志供稿。他关注非洲问题，另著有《为生存而斗争：刚果的战争和救援故事》。
Bryan Mealer is the author of Muck City and the New York Times bestseller The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he wrote with William Kamkwamba. Since publication, the book has received many honors and has been translated into over a dozen languages. Mealer is also the author of All Things Must Fight to Live, which chronicled his years covering the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Harper's and the Associated Press. His forthcoming book, The Kings of Big Spring, a multi-generational saga about his family in West Texas, will be published by Flatiron Books in early 2018. He and his family live in Austin.
My name is William Kamkwamba, and to understand the story I’m about to tell, you must first understand the country that raised me. Malawi is a tiny nation in southeastern Africa. On a map, it appears like a flatworm burrowing its way through Zambia, Mozambique, and Tanzania, looking for a little room. Malawi is often called “The Warm Heart of Africa,” which says nothing about its location, but everything about the people who call it home. The Kamkwambas hail from the center of the country, from a tiny village called Masitala, located on the outskirts of the town of Wimbe.

You might be wondering what an African village looks like. Well, ours consists of about ten houses, each one made of mud bricks and painted white. For most of my life, our roofs were made from long grasses that we picked near the swamps, or dambos in our Chichewa language. The grasses kept us cool in the hot months, but during the cold nights of winter, the frost crept into our bones and we slept under an extra pile of blankets.

Every house in Masitala belongs to my large extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins. In our house, there was me, my mother and father, and my six sisters, along with some goats and guinea fowl, and a few chickens.

When people hear I’m the only boy among six girls, they often say, “Eh, bambo”—which is like saying “Hey, man”—“so sorry for you!” And it’s true. The downside to having only sisters is that I often got bullied in school since I had no older brothers to protect me. And my sisters were always messing with my things—especially my tools and inventions—giving me no privacy.

Whenever I asked my parents, “Why do we have so many girls in the first place?” I always got the same answer: “Because the baby store was all out of boys.” But as you’ll see in this story, my sisters are actually pretty great. And when you live on a farm, you need all of the help you can get.

My family grew maize, which is another word for white corn. In our language, we lovingly referred to it as chimanga. And growing chimanga required all hands. Every planting season, my sisters and I would wake up before dawn to hoe the weeds, dig our careful rows, then push the seeds gently into the soft soil. When it came time to harvest, we were busy again.

Most families in Malawi are farmers. We live our entire lives out in the countryside, far away from cities, where we can tend our fields and raise our animals. Where we live, there are no computers or video games, very few televisions, and for most of my life, we didn’t have electricity—just oil lamps that spewed smoke and coated our lungs with soot.

Farmers here have always been poor, and not many can afford an education. Seeing a doctor is also difficult, since most of us don’t own cars. From the time we’re born, we’re given a life with very few options. Because of this poverty and lack of knowledge, Malawians found help wherever we could.