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Author:

Potter, Alicia.

Title:

Mrs. Harkness and the panda / written by Alicia Potter ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

[29] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Giant panda
Harkness, Ruth.
Wild animal collecting.
Giant panda.
Wild animal collecting--China.
Harkness, Ruth.

Other Authors:

Sweet, Melissa, 1956- ill.

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."

ISBN:

0375944486 (lib. bdg.)
9780375944482 (lib. bdg.)
0375844481 (trade)
9780375844485 (trade)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)645708059

LCCN:

2010025287

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