The lady and the panda : the true adventures of the first American explorer to bring back China's most exotic animal /
Vicki Constantine Croke.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Random House, c2005.
- xix, 372 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Presents an account of New York socialite Ruth Harkness's expedition to China in 1936, during which she became the first American explorer to capture a baby panda and return it to the U.S., where it was put on display at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.