TY - BOOK AU - Olmsted,Larry TI - Getting into Guinness: one man's longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world's most famous record book SN - 9780007261291 AV - AG243 .O47 2008 U1 - 001.9 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Collins KW - Guinness world records KW - History KW - World records KW - Miscellanea KW - Curiosities and wonders KW - Trivia and miscellanea KW - lcgft N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0823/2008029669.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008029669-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2008029669-d.html ER -