Extraordinary Tales is a collection of larger-than-life stories from the author’s own words, as written and told to family and friends over the years. Some among us live lives of prominence and significance.

But it is rare that one experiences and achieves such a broad range of remarkable accomplishments and has so much fun doing it. Author David P.

Jacobson, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon, a record-holding big game hunter, a prankster, a painter-sculptor, and an adventurist medical volunteer who married very well and helped raise a happy, adventurous, and curious family. Enjoy his recollections and life stories, which include a mischievous youth in rural Pennsylvania, an unusual and remarkable journey of education, serving his country as a young doctor on a Native reservation, and inspiring and harrowing volunteering adventures, including as a combat surgeon during the Russian Afghan War.

Jacobson‘s previous work, Hunter’s Tales - The Real-life Adventures of a Lifelong Hunter, is a collection of stories and accounts of recreational and big game hunting in North America. .