Mrs. Harkness and the panda / Potter, Alicia

In 1934, Ruth Harkness had never seen a panda. Few people in the world had. But two years later, despite her friends' concern, she traveled to the Chinese wilderness to fulfill her late husband's goal: bringing a panda to the United States.

An illustrated account of Ruth Harkness' journey to China and up the Yangtze River, where she discovered a baby panda she named Su Lin.