Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney\'s most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.
In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and enterta.
But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future.
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon.
Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday\'s dreams are tomorrow\'s realities Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney ParksWalt Disney\'s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub IwerksOne Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the GlobeMarc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme ParksYesterday\'s Tomorrow: Disney\'s Magical Mid-CenturyEat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney FoodMaps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to ShanghaiThe Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney ClassicPoster Art of the Disney Parks Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney\'s most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.
Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.
In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt\'s prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere.
In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.
But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future.
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon.
Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney\'s most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail
