{"product_id":"the-disney-monorail-jeff-kurtti-9781484737675","title":"The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eDeluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWalt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSearching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Poster Art of the Disney Parks \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Kurtti, Vanessa Hunt, Paul Wolski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1484737679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781484737675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Disney Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 11.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Jeff Kurtti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051468648703,"sku":"9781484737675","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5dfc340-bc8f-453a-9701-70047f540046.jpg?v=1685013284","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-disney-monorail-jeff-kurtti-9781484737675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}