The Mammoth Book Of Weird Records (Mammoth Books)

by JimTheobald (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2015

  $3.35

  Everyone's heard of Usain Bolt, but how many people know about Dineka Maguire? Like Bolt, the Irish woman is a world record holder but in the rather lesser known sport of bog snorkelling. She is just one of the hundreds of unsung heroes featured in this book chronicling the people who go to bizarre lengths to break world records in the weirdest categories; people who devote hours of intense training to spitting dung, eating cockroaches, sniffing feet or tossing tuna in the hope of one day being recognised as the best in the world. This astonishing compendium of the weirdest, wackiest and most disgusting world records will amuse and astound in equal measure.

  Entries include:

  Longest ear hair
  Fastest marathon while wearing a deep-sea diving suit
  Fastest bog snorkeller
  Farthest distance skateboarding by a goat
  Most bees on body
  Most milk crates balanced on head
  Fastest 5-km run while dressed as a penguin and juggling
  Heaviest airplane pulled with teeth
  Fastest shopping trolley
  Longest backwards motorcycle ride
  Most stairs climbed by bicycle
  Fastest 30 metres on a scooter by a dog
  First water-skiing squirrel

• New

  Paperback
  2015

  $12.16

  Everyone's heard of Usain Bolt, but how many people know about Dineka Maguire? Like Bolt, the Irish woman is a world record holder but in the rather lesser known sport of bog snorkelling. She is just one of the hundreds of unsung heroes featured in this book chronicling the people who go to bizarre lengths to break world records in the weirdest categories; people who devote hours of intense training to spitting dung, eating cockroaches, sniffing feet or tossing tuna in the hope of one day being recognised as the best in the world. This astonishing compendium of the weirdest, wackiest and most disgusting world records will amuse and astound in equal measure.

  Entries include:

  Longest ear hair
  Fastest marathon while wearing a deep-sea diving suit
  Fastest bog snorkeller
  Farthest distance skateboarding by a goat
  Most bees on body
  Most milk crates balanced on head
  Fastest 5-km run while dressed as a penguin and juggling
  Heaviest airplane pulled with teeth
  Fastest shopping trolley
  Longest backwards motorcycle ride
  Most stairs climbed by bicycle
  Fastest 30 metres on a scooter by a dog
  First water-skiing squirrel