Chasing the Panda  •  Michael Kiefer TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 230 PAGES Subtitled: How an Unlikely Pair of Adventurers Won the Race to Capture the Mythical "White Bear", this engaging book unearths the spellbinding tale of a charismatic young Chinese American and American socialite Ruth Harkness, and their successful expedition into remote Sichuan in 1936 to recover a panda bear. The panda cub (though it lived only 16 months in the Brookfield Zoo) caused a sensation. The author, who had originally intended to write about Harkness, interviewed the elderly Quentin Young and his brother Jack for the book. (CHN166, $24.95)
Giant Pandas in the Wild, Saving an Endangered Species  •  Lu Zhi NATURAL HISTORY •  2002 •  HARD COVER  • 128 PAGES In this important new book, Dr. Lu Zhi offers an indepth portrait of the giant panda and international conservation efforts to protect the panda and its habitat in China. A researcher since 1985 and former coordinator of WWF's panda program in China, Dr. Zhi chronicles the social lives and population dynamics of 20 individuals in a number of reserves, both in text and photographs. With a foreword by Claude Martin, Director General of WWF-International, and excellent color photos by George Schaller and Lu Zhi. (CHN173, $35.00)
The Last Panda  •  George Schaller NATURAL HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 291 PAGES The great naturalist George Schaller spent almost 5 years in the wild in Sichuan province studying the panda in the 1980s. This book is both his description of the great panda in nature, and an eloquent plea for how to save the species in the wild. With 16 color plates. (CHN24, $15.00)
Pandas  •  Heather Angel NATURAL HISTORY •  1998 •  PAPER  • 72 PAGES A series of photographs of pandas, taken in their natural habitat. Most of the book is concerned with the Giant Pandas of Wolong, but a short section on the red panda is also included. Information on natural history is included, but the book's real strength is its gorgeous color images. (CHN137, $17.95)
Wild China  •  John MacKinnon  •  Nigel Hicks NATURAL HISTORY •  1996 •  HARD COVER  • 208 PAGES An informative, up-to-date survey of the wildlife and natural history of China in a handsome, oversize volume. The book, published in association with World Wildlife Fund, features excellent maps and 400 superb color photographs by Gerald Cubitt. The detailed text covers the enormous range of habitats and natural areas in China with a particular focus on reserves (and the panda). (CHN19, $39.95)
The Year of the Panda  •  Miriam Schlein  •  Kam Mak LITERATURE •  1992 •  PAPER  • 82 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) Rich in detail of the plight and rescue of the giant panda, this chapter book is written for readers 8-12. In it ten-year-old Lu Yi and his father find an orphaned da xiong mao (giant panda) and nurse it back to health. A government messenger hears of the discovery and invites Lu Yi to accompany the panda to the Panda Rescue Center. (CHN105, $4.99)