FiguresPrefaceIntroductionPleasure Gardens, Great Exhibitions and WonderlandsIllustrations and InnovationsMickey Mouse ChivalryFairy Tale RomanceMonsters, Murders and VampiresThe Riddles of the SphinxBoy's Own StoriesTreasure Islands and Blue LagoonsFuture ImperfectConstructing the FrontierConsuming the WestBibliography

Figures Preface Introduction Pleasure Gardens, Great Exhibitions and Wonderlands Illustrations and Innovations Mickey Mouse Chivalry Fairy Tale Romance Monsters, Murders and Vampires The Riddles of the Sphinx Boy's Own Stories Treasure Islands and Blue Lagoons Future Imperfect Constructing the Frontier Consuming the West Bibliography

Figures

• 1.1 The Grand Orchestra at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, 1803

• 1.2 Map of Alton Towers theme park

• 2.1 Mad Hatter's tea party, Alice in Wonderland, John Tenniel, 1865

• 2.2 Giant teacup ride, Lambeth Show, 1995

• 3.1  Scenes from Richard the Third. Published by A. Park and J. Golding, by kind permission of Pollocks Toy Theatres Limited

• 3.2 Guinevere, Brighton Pier, 2010

• 4.1  Cinderella; or the Little Glass Slipper, by kind permission of Pollocks Toy Theatres Limited

• 4.2 Excalibur Hotel complex, Las Vegas, 2008

• 5.1 ‘And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death and Hell followed with him’ (Rev. vi.8). Engraving by Gustav Doré after a work by H. Pisan, 1865

• 5.2 Wicked Witches Haunt, Thorpe Park, 2009

• 6.1 Bullock's Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, 1812

• 6.2 Terror Tomb, Alton Towers, 2005

• 7.1 ‘How I found Livingstone’. Illustration for French edition: ‘Comment j'ai retrouvé Livingstone’, Rencontre de Livingstone. Paris: Hachette, 1876

• 7.2 Explorer, Legoland, 2010

• 8.1  Scene III: Final tableau from characters and scenes in Blackbeard the Pirate, or, the Jolly Buccaneers, Pollock's (late eighteenth century)

• 8.2 Treasure Island Hotel, Las Vegas

• 9.1 The first Channel crossing by air, 1785

• 9.2 Balloons, Legoland, 2010

• 10.1 ‘Shooting a flume’ in the Sierra Nevada, Harper's Weekly, 2 June 1877

• 10.2 Fantastische Reise (Fantastic Journey), Prater Park, Vienna

• 11.1  Chauncey L. Moore, opposite Court Square, on Main Street, c. 1884. Engraving from King's Handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts

• 11.2 Town Hall, Disneyland, Paris, 2009