In August 1941, an unlikely group of travelers left the United States and journeyed to Latin America. The travelers were a group of artists and writers from The Walt Disney Studios, headed by Walt himself, engaged by the U.S. government to conduct a two-month goodwill tour of the region. The party, self-nicknamed "El Grupo," went far beyond its basic diplomatic mission, gathering a wealth of artistic and musical impressions which would later be used to produce new Disney films with a Latin theme. In this sumptuously illustrated Monograph, three Disney historians pool decades of their research to reconstruct a detailed day-by-day account of El Grupo's trip. Drawing extensively upon Disney archival sources as well as the travelers' first-hand accounts, the authors have supplemented the historical record with hundreds of photos, many from recently discovered private collections. In these pages, El Grupo's adventure comes to life once again.