Mrs. Harkness and the panda /
Traces the story of a 1930s female adventurer who brought America its first panda bear, describing how she inherited a seemingly impossible expedition from her explorer husband and defied period conventions to travel up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness to bring back an adorable panda cub sh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Traces the story of a 1930s female adventurer who brought America its first panda bear, describing how she inherited a seemingly impossible expedition from her explorer husband and defied period conventions to travel up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness to bring back an adorable panda cub she named Su Lin, which means "a little bit of something cute." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780375844485 (trade) 0375844481 (trade) 9780375944482 (lib. bdg.) 0375944486 (lib. bdg.) |