Weeks after their wedding, he decamped for china in hopes of becoming the first westerner to capture the most. Ruth elizabeth harkness 21 september 1900 20 july 1947 was an american fashion designer and socialite, who traveled to china in 1936 and brought out the first live giant panda to the united states not in a cage, or on a leash, but wrapped in her arms harkness was born in titusville, pennsylvania. Just before christmas a juvenile was published, telling the story of the baby panda in the chicago zoo. The book the lady and the monk published in the year 1991 attempts to describe his encounters while in the foreign land of japan. The travel channel a biopic about ruth harkness is in the works. In 1934, her husband bill harkness had traveled to china in search of a panda, but died of. The story of zoospast, present and future, and elephant company.
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