Kicking Ass and Saving Souls: The Story of a Boy from Baltimore Who Evolves from a Safecracking, Jewel-Heisting, Deep-Sea Diving, Ultimate-Fighting, International Playboy to a Globetrottinghumanitaria

By David Matthews

Book Overview

The gripping and redemptive story of how an American boy went looking for adventure and wound up trying to save the world Stefan Templeton is a true Renaissance man with an insatiable thirst for risk. Before he was twenty-one, Templeton had hunted in Burgundy, brawled in Oxford, served as a medicine man on Colombia, escaped death in the Amazon, and trained to be a deep-sea diver on Cousteau's Calypso. In this biography that reads like a thrilling adventure novel, readers accompany Templeton through the United States, Europe, South America, Japan, and Southeast Asia--chronicling the amazing life of a playboy, jewel thief, warrior, and finally a hero who finds a focus in humanitarian relief work in some of the bleakest corners of the globe. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594202966
• ISBN13: 9781594202964
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher