Strictly Off the Record [[electronic resource] ] : On the Trail of World Records with Norris McWhirter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910157365903321
• Autore: Nicholas Anna
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, : Summersdale Publishers Ltd, 2010
• ISBN: 1-78372-016-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 032.0922
• Soggetti: World records; General; Dictionaries - General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; CONTENTS; AUTHOR'S PREFACE; ONE - THE ODYSSEY BEGINS; TWO - FULL OF HOT AIR; THREE - THE BIGGEST BOOK IN THE WORLD; FOUR - THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL; FIVE - STRANGE ENCOUNTERS UP NORTH; SIX - THE FORGETFUL MEMORY MAN; SEVEN - BRIDGE AND BRAINS; EIGHT - JACKSON THE RECORD KING; NINE - DANCING IN THE STREETS; TEN - THE LEANING TOWER OF BREAD; ELEVEN - TRIFFID CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CHANTING AND CLAIRVOYANTS; TWELVE - DEAD WOMEN, HANDSHAKING AND LONG CARS; THIRTEEN - A SPORTING CHANCE; FOURTEEN - KOREANS, KIMCHI AND CAR-PULLING; FIFTEEN - GOLDEN OLDIES; SIXTEEN - ALL ABOARD - TRAINS, BUSES AND FIRE ENGINESSEVENTEEN - THE WORLD'S WORST WHIFF AND OTHER TV DISASTERS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Sommario/riassunto: In this achingly funny and irreverent memoir, Anna Nicholas recounts her adventures judging records around the world with The Guinness Book of Records founder, Norris McWhirter, CBE. Nicknamed Batman and Robin, they travelled the UK and beyond together meeting eccentric, weird and wonderful record breakers. Adjudicating Richard Branson's circumnavigation of the globe in a hot air balloon, the world's highest tower of bread, the longest conga line and the cramming of the most people ever on deckchairs onto Weymouth beach was all in a day's work for this dynamic duo. And, of course, things di