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The subject of this book had me a little turned off . . . capturing pandas from their wild and natural environment to bring them back to a zoo in the states so that scientists could learn more about them. But, once I got over that, I found it to be an amazing story about a widow who sets out to pursue the dream of her dead husband by travelling to the remote western region of China to capture a baby panda. No one believes she’s capable of going through with it because of her sex and her background, a high class partier from New York. It’s her fight against her many critics and her determination that made me keep reading but her love for China and its people really opened up my eyes to this enormous country we are about to explore.