The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal Memoir_Gift_Guide ” — Jack Canfield

” — Jack Canfield

and enduring as the painting at its center

its news circuits centered in cafés

all while learning Spanish

familiar or strange

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal Memoir_Gift_Guide ” — Jack CanfieldHere 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