The last panda /

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Author / Creator:Schaller, George B.
Edition:Pbk. ed.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Description:xx, 299 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7481439
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ISBN:0226736296 (pbk.)
9780226736297
Notes:Originally published: 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-289) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface Prologue
  • 1. "Every Journey Begins with the First Step"
  • 2. Winter Days
  • 3. Panda Politics
  • 4. A Footnote to History
  • 5. A Mountain of Treasure
  • 6. In the Hollow of a Fir
  • 7. Wei-Wei's World
  • 8. Death in the Choushuigou
  • 9. Travels in Panda Country
  • 10. Zhen-Zhen Eats Bitterness
  • 11. Tangjiahe
  • 12. Crisis
  • 13. Prisoners of Fate
  • 14. Rent-a-Panda Epilogue
  • App. A. In Search of the Kylin: The Endangered Wildlife of China
  • App. B. The Panda Is a Panda
  • App. C. Winter Birds Observed at Wuyipeng
  • App. D. Excerpts from the 1989 Panda Management Plan
  • App. E. Excerpts from Position Statements on Exhibition Loans of Giant Pandas
  • Selected Reading
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Species and Subjects