The Fortunate Tiger and Other Close Encounters selects eleven most thrilling adventures of Jim Corbett in the Indian jungles. Legendary hunter and author Corbett, after his first kill at the age of 10 has ranged far and wide across Kumaon and Garhwal for much of his life, rescuing villages terrorized by man-eating felines. And, in the stories of his exploits—The Fortunate Tiger, which seemed to enjoy divine protection from his bullets; The Talla Des Killer, which he was forced to track while nursing a burst eardrum; and The Final Man-eater of Corbett’s career, a tigress which he lured and shot using himself as bait—Corbett gives us some of the greatest “shikar-tales” ever told. The book is a collection of adventures as each of his description takes the readers to the sight of his encounters in the jungle.