Getting into Guinness : one man's longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world's most famous record book /
Olmsted, Larry.
Getting into Guinness : one man's longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world's most famous record book / cover title Larry Olmsted. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Collins, c2008. - xxi, 293 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index.
Meet Ashrita, record breaker for God -- The greatest record of all: birds, beaver, beer, and Sir Hugh's impossible question -- Getting into Guinness gets personal -- Guinnessport: getting into Guinness goes prime time -- 15 minutes of fame -- Seventy-two hours in hell: getting back into Guinness -- The cheese does not stand alone: giant food and Guinness -- Records go global -- The dark side of Guinness: records gone bad -- Epilogue -- The stories of my favorite records -- The long way into Guinness: an ode to drudgery -- So you want to be a record breaker? -- A record-breaking timeline.
9780007261291 0061373486
2008029669
Guinness world records--History.
World records--Miscellanea.
Curiosities and wonders--Miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
AG243 / .O47 2008
001.9
Getting into Guinness : one man's longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world's most famous record book / cover title Larry Olmsted. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Collins, c2008. - xxi, 293 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index.
Meet Ashrita, record breaker for God -- The greatest record of all: birds, beaver, beer, and Sir Hugh's impossible question -- Getting into Guinness gets personal -- Guinnessport: getting into Guinness goes prime time -- 15 minutes of fame -- Seventy-two hours in hell: getting back into Guinness -- The cheese does not stand alone: giant food and Guinness -- Records go global -- The dark side of Guinness: records gone bad -- Epilogue -- The stories of my favorite records -- The long way into Guinness: an ode to drudgery -- So you want to be a record breaker? -- A record-breaking timeline.
9780007261291 0061373486
2008029669
Guinness world records--History.
World records--Miscellanea.
Curiosities and wonders--Miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
AG243 / .O47 2008
001.9