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Chasing the panda : how an unlikely pair of adventurers won the race to capture the mythical "white bear" / by Michael Kiefer.
Van Pelt Library QL737.C214 K54 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kiefer, Michael, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Giant panda--History.
- Giant panda.
- Harkness, Ruth.
- Young, Quentin, 1914-.
- Young, Quentin.
- Young, Quentin--Journeys--China--Sichuan province.
- Harkness, Ruth--Journeys--China--Sichuan province.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- Young, Quentin--Journeys--China--Sichuan province.
- Harkness, Ruth--Journeys--China--Sichuan province.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- v, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, [2002]
- Summary:
- In 1936, Quentin Young, a 22-year-old Chinese American, led American socialite Ruth Harkness on an expedition into Sichuan to capture a giant panda. Photos.
- Contents:
- 1 The Panda First 1
- 2 Ouentin 9
- 3 A Chinese Evolution 17
- 4 Jack 29
- 5 The Sikong Expeditions 49
- 6 The Lure of the Giant Panda 73
- 7 Ruth 95
- 8 Upriver 113
- 9 The Catch 129
- 10 Panda-Monium 139
- 11 The Rape of the Panda 155
- 12 War and Ruth's Peace 175
- 13 Yin and Yang 195
- 14 Indiana Jones Lives Near the Mall 207.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1568582234
- OCLC:
- 48661606
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