Getting into Guinness, Non-Fiction, Paperback, Larry Olmsted

Collins

Getting into GuinnessOne Mans Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the Worlds Most Famous Record Book\nAuthor(s): Larry Olmsted\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: Collins\nISBN-13: 9780007284252, 978-0007284252\nSynopsis\nGetting Into Guinness is the hilarious true story of record breaking attempts, how record obsession has become a global phenomenon, the weird and wonderful characters that set records and the history of the Guinness Book of World Records.\nMeet Larry Olmsted, a freelance travel and sports writer, always on the hunt for new and intriguing stories. In Spring 2003, somewhere over the North Atlantic, Larry stumbled on an article about the worldwide popularity of Guinness. Inspired by what he read, and in a bid to impress his editor, he took the drastic decision to set a record of his own and become part of the book's history. This leads Larry to break the record for the greatest distance travelled between two rounds of .