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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records 2001
Newly revised with all-new photos and features
The must-have, fun-to-read guide to every amazing fact, figure, and feat for the new millennium
From the world's largest teddy bear to the smallest handheld cell phone, from the biggest lottery jackpot to the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize, Guinness World Records is an indispensable compendium, filled with every vital statistic you'll ever need -- as well as the pictures to back them up!
Did you know...
* The world record for most body piercings belongs to a Scottish woman who sports a total of 462 -- including 192 on her head!
* The world's most valuable bikini -- handsewn and encrusted with diamonds -- is worth nearly $200,000.
* The world's longest human chain spanned 370 miles, when 2 million people in Latvia joined hands to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a peace treaty.
Featuring over 1,000 extraordinary new records and 300 stunning photographs, the 2001 edition of Guinness World Records includes updated sections on computer games, the Internet, special effects, martial arts, dance music, the prehistoric world, and much more. It is the world's favorite family reference book -- the undisputed authority on world records for almost 50 years.
Guinness World Records and the Star Figure Logo are trademarks of Guinness World Records Ltd., London.
Used under license by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
The must-have, fun-to-read guide to every amazing fact, figure, and feat for the new millennium
From the world's largest teddy bear to the smallest handheld cell phone, from the biggest lottery jackpot to the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize, Guinness World Records is an indispensable compendium, filled with every vital statistic you'll ever need -- as well as the pictures to back them up!
Did you know...
* The world record for most body piercings belongs to a Scottish woman who sports a total of 462 -- including 192 on her head!
* The world's most valuable bikini -- handsewn and encrusted with diamonds -- is worth nearly $200,000.
* The world's longest human chain spanned 370 miles, when 2 million people in Latvia joined hands to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a peace treaty.
Featuring over 1,000 extraordinary new records and 300 stunning photographs, the 2001 edition of Guinness World Records includes updated sections on computer games, the Internet, special effects, martial arts, dance music, the prehistoric world, and much more. It is the world's favorite family reference book -- the undisputed authority on world records for almost 50 years.
Guinness World Records and the Star Figure Logo are trademarks of Guinness World Records Ltd., London.
Used under license by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
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512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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February 25, 2014
I was given the 1962 hardcover edition of the Guinness Book as an elementary schooler. I found it utterly fascinating, reading it from cover to cover in short order and referring to it frequently thereafter, if only to settle arguments. Contemporary editions are very pale reflections of that one. Sure, now they have lots of big colored pictures while in '62 there were only small, black and white prints. They also have a lot less text and now fail to convey any sense of completeness (not that the '62 edition was 'complete', whatever that might mean). Sure, some of it is amusing, but the intellectual level of the whole seems to have descended to the level long occupied by the various editions of Ripley's Believe it or Not.
December 6, 2007
The Guinness books get worse and worse. This one is quite okay, though.
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July 21, 2010It was a fad at that time of my life
February 28, 2012
I just love browsing through records.
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May 5, 2012Intresting
August 7, 2012
a popular book with children, they love showing everyone gross facts they can find
a collection of weird facts
a collection of weird facts
August 11, 2012
This is when Guinness turned bad. Glossy photos, cutesy text and a collapsed breadth. Pffft.
May 11, 2013
Some people waste their lives on breaking records like this?.. for what?
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