--- product_id: 123935924 title: "Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Kindle Edition" brand: "richard snow" price: "20212CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/123935924-disneys-land-walt-disney-and-the-invention-of-the-amusement store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Kindle Edition **Brand:** richard snow **Price:** 20212CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Kindle Edition by richard snow - **How much does it cost?** 20212CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/123935924-disneys-land-walt-disney-and-the-invention-of-the-amusement) ## Best For - richard snow enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted richard snow brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Kindle Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51f0RC+3FOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect if you don't know the history. Just a pleasant read if you do. *by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019* Having read just about everything available on the history of the development and design of the original Disneyland park, it's quite honest to say that there is nothing new here. The most recent original scholarship would be "Three Years in Wonderland" by Todd James Pierce, and anything fresh has been basically cribbed from that book by Snow. All of the familiar anecdotes and quotes from the three key Walt Disney biographies (Thomas, Watts, and Gabler) are here, nearly verbatim. And if you have the archives of The "E" Ticket magazine, Snow quotes liberally from those interviews as well. It's nice to see Ruth Shellhorn's key role as formal landscape designer recognized (she gets her own chapter), because until the landmark 2016 Comras biography—and the terrific aforementioned Pierce volume—her role had been quietly forgotten by the Disney company in favor of hagiographic accounts of the Evans brothers.Where Snow really succeeds is that "Disney's Land" is a pleasant, tightly plotted and elegantly written book in a popular voice for a wide audience. That alone is enough to recommend it. If you don't know the particulars of the story, I'd start here and then dip into the bibliography to drill down deeper. Congrats to Snow; this is basically a 'biography' of Disneyland that can sit comfortably on a shelf next to Gabler's "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" even if it doesn't present any original scholarship. A solid distillation. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Going Beyond the Fantasy *by C***M on Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020* Richard Snow is not only an engaging writer, he's also a master at describing how transformative technologies and inventions happened in 19th and 20th century America, and he makes this fun to read (even for those of us who recoil at screwdrivers and exposed wiring). Snow has achieved this in earlier works (Iron Dawn about the Merrimac and the Monitor, I Invented the Modern Age about Henry Ford's Model T), and he does it again in Disney's Land. His subjects are not always the most appealing. They can have serious flaws, and some critics believe he glosses over these. Snow's interest, however, is not so much with his characters' frailties as with their abilities not only to invent but also to engage and attract others to work with them toward a common vision.His books in general, as well as this one specifically, produce an American story at its best. Snow not only describes with wonderful detail the personalities of his visionaries, like Disney, but also those of the extraordinary people who contributed their own genius, with long hard hours and little financial incentive, to produce new enterprises that opened up vast areas of creativity and invention. In this book, Snow also describes in detail, with elegance and humor, the technological and financial challenges that went into building Disneyland. They were typically complicated, never encountered before, and had solutions that went way outside the boxes of the day.People accuse Disney of building theme parks that present a lie about America, a phony image that's too good, too shallow, a false façade that fails to reveal the cultural darkness underlying our history. In giving us the story of how Disney's Land was built however, Snow is showing an America with generous and brilliant workers who bring meaning to their lives by solving complex problems in harmony with each other for the creation not of a lie but of a fairy tale. We hope these Americans are still around. We all need them.(As an added bonus, his chapter on the mishaps of opening day is nothing less than hilarious.) ### ⭐⭐⭐ Nothing new here *by S***U on Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2019* Another pumped out mass produced book that really does not cover any new ground. Why does anyone write a new book that has already been written, stop doing this, it only kills more trees for no purpose, what a waste of my time and money. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/123935924-disneys-land-walt-disney-and-the-invention-of-the-amusement](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/123935924-disneys-land-walt-disney-and-the-invention-of-the-amusement) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-09-15*