Writing with Edward Anthony, Buck relates some of his most frightening experiences, among them, his battle with an escaped king cobra.

This lust to kill invests the king cobra with a quality of fiendishness that puts it in a class by itself, almost making it a jungle synonym for death."

When the escaped king cobra confronted him, Buck wrote, for an instant, mind and body were numb.

A tapir he was trying to medicate made a sudden terrific charge, hitting him in the stomach with its head and knocking him down.

In 2000, Steven Lehrer published a new collection of these stories in Bring 'Em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck.