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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a 1930s female adventurer who brought America its first panda bear, describing how she inherited a seemingly impossible expedition from her explorer husband and defied period conventions to travel up the Yangtze River and into the wilderness to bring back an adorable panda cub she named Su Lin, which means "a little bit of something cute."
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
1. A look at some of the unusual animals found only in Australia: kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, and wombats -- 2. Steve and Terri visit Terri's home region, the northwest of the United States, and interact with the local elk, bison, otters, beavers, cougars, snakes, and bears -- 3. See Steve leap out of a boat to catch a seven foot crocodile and teach some of his special methods of catching and relocating crocodiles -- 4. Charlie is an enormous aggressive...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, David Attenborough, a young television presenter, was offered the opportunity of a lifetime--to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for the London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC for a new show called Zoo Quest. This is the story of those voyages. Staying with local tribes while trekking in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Komodo dragons in Indonesia, and armadillos in Paraguay, he and the rest...
Author
Publisher
Two Roads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The further adventures of a young David Attenborough - from Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia. Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion...
