description: A New York Times Bestseller Here is the true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan socialite who took on the quest that cost her husband his life and trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture a bear that had for centuries lived in secret in a labyrinth of cold, lonely mountains.
language: English
title: The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
titlecomplete: The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
genres: Memoir, Biography, Animals, Biography Memoir, History, Nature, Nonfiction, China, Adventure, Travel
ratings_count: 1285
publisher: Thorndike Press