Getting into Guinness
Subtitle: one man's longest, fastest, highest journey inside the world's most famous record book
By: Larry Olmsted
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780007284252; 9780061373497
Subjects: Miscellanea; Curiosities and wonders; World records
Description: Recounts the author's journey into the culture of the "Guinness World Records" and his own haphazard and successful attempts to break two records; profiles some of the book's funniest and most interesting records.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Collins, ©2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Meet Ashrita, record breaker for God; title: The greatest record of all: birds, beaver, beer, and Sir Hugh's impossible question; title: Getting into Guinness gets personal; title: Guinnessport: getting into Guinness goes prime time; title: 15 minutes of fame; title: Seventy-two hours in hell: getting back into Guinness; title: The cheese does not stand alone: giant food and Guinness; title: Records go global; title: The dark side of Guinness: records gone bad; title: Epilogue; title: The stories of my favorite records; title: The long way into Guinness: an ode to drudgery; title: So you want to be a record breaker?; title: A record-breaking timeline.