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

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."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780375844485 (trade)
  • ISBN: 0375844481 (trade)
  • ISBN: 9780375944482 (lib. bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0375944486 (lib. bdg.)
  • Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject:
Giant panda.
Wild animal collecting > China.
Harkness, Ruth.
Giant panda
Harkness, Ruth.
Wild animal collecting.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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1001 . ‡aPotter, Alicia.
24510. ‡aMrs. Harkness and the panda / ‡cwritten by Alicia Potter ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
250 . ‡a1st ed.
260 . ‡aNew York : ‡bAlfred A. Knopf, ‡cc2012.
300 . ‡a1 v. (unpaged) : ‡bcol. ill. ; ‡c29 cm.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 . ‡aTraces 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."
650 0. ‡aGiant panda.
650 0. ‡aWild animal collecting ‡zChina.
60010. ‡aHarkness, Ruth.
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60011. ‡aHarkness, Ruth.
650 1. ‡aWild animal collecting.
7001 . ‡aSweet, Melissa, ‡d1956- ‡eill.
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