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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Main Author: Potter, Alicia
Other Authors: Sweet, Melissa, 1956- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
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