What's Left of Me
How I Lost a Fight with a Rogue Hippo and Won my Life
The transition from Zimbabwe to Beverly Hills, Michigan would have been challenging for anyone. With no money, no job and no arm, Paul Templer faced more than the usual set of obstacles as his story reveals with an acute sense of what is possible. Paul tackled his pursuit of the American dream with the same determination he used to fight the rogue hippo that almost took his life, and he was victorious in both battles.
Paul’s story begins in 1978 when as a nine-year-old Rhodesian boy, his “life as usual” included going to school in an armored vehicle and having a clear understanding that those determined to take over his country, didn't discriminate when it came to killing people. As Rhodesia settles into becoming Zimbabwe, Paul develops an aversion to settling at all. Traversing the globe, Paul’s life begins to read like a travelogue, refusing to get a “proper job” he discovers his niche is a river safari guide and spends his days taking tourists along the Zambezi River... and life was good. Until one particularly bad day at the office, a rogue hippo tragically alters Paul’s idyllic life, leaving him near death and despondent.
It is at this point that Paul embarks upon a safari even more unpredictable than those he led down the mighty Zambezi River. With the support of family and friends, Paul's life catapults from a hospital room to the world stage as word travels around the globe about the African safari guide who survived a hippo attack... and this is only the middle of Paul’s story.
Father of three, CEO of opusdynamic and President of the Templer Foundation, Paul Templer illustrates that adversity doesn’t build character insomuch as it reveals it.
"What's Left of Me" is an incredibly moving story. I picked it up one morning and couldn't put it down until I finished it, ingesting every captivating morsel and experiencing a whole realm of emotions along the way; I laughed, I wept, and there were moments I was so engrossed that I had to remember to breathe. "What's Left of Me" truly puts life in perspective. To know that these events actually happened and that Paul championed his way through them is unbelievably inspiring.”
— Jean A. Johnson via Amazon review
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