The Jungle Cruise: The Wild History of Walt’s Favorite Ride

You’ve been on the ride, maybe seen the movie, you’ve read Skipper Stories, but you’ve never seen a book like this before. This is the first history of a Disney park attraction told from the point of view of the men and women who worked there.
This ground-breaking book covers the history of the Jungle Cruise at all four of its Disney parks, but it also goes much deeper. After the Imagineers left, the skippers took over and the story of how the attraction has been run since has never been told before. You’ll meet the first skippers from 1955 and see how a serious boat ride through the jungle became a comedy tour that has entertained guests across the world. You’ll see what happened during the wild 1970s, and how Walt Disney World skippers became just as crazy as their West Coast cousins. You’ll learn about the Jungle Cruises in Tokyo and Hong Kong and find out why there isn’t one in Paris or Shanghai.
Along the way you’ll see it all; the training, the mishaps, the wild parties, skippers and managers trying to out-do each other, and much more. You’ll see the several radical changes the Jungle Cruise has undergone and how skippers and guests adapted.
More than anything, you’ll come to see why this was Walt Disney’s favorite ride.