(Download) The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal






 | #451474 in Books |  Croke, Vicki C. |  2006-06-13 |  2006-06-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.98 x.80 x5.19l,.66 | File Name: 0375759700 | 400 pages


||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| “Just” a woman abandons NYC society and has an adventure|By Jaylia|I love reading about the exploits of interesting people traversing parts of the world I’ve never seen, and this exuberant biography of a Manhattan dress designer turned international explorer held me rapt with one caveat that I’ll explain at the end.

Ruth Harkness did not come|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . During the Great Depression, inexpensive entertainment could be had at any city zoo. The exploits of the utterly macho men who bagged the beasts also made good adventure-film fodder. Yet one of the most famous animals ev

Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mountains. In The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke gives us the remarkable account of Ruth Harkness and her extraordinary journey, and restores Harkness to her rightful place a...


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