The History of the Guinness Book of World Records
Are you interested in world records? Do you want to know who the oldest person is in the world? Or the largest cake? Or the heaviest newspaper? Well, if you do, you can find all the afrom an amazing book: the Guinness Book of World Records《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》.
The idea for this book started from an argument. Hugh Beaver worked for Guinness (金氏啤酒) Company in Britain. One day he went out for a walk with his friends. When some birds flew across the sky, he said they were the fastest birds in the world. Nobody awith him. He made a bet (打赌) with his friends. The next day, he tried to solve the problem by reading some books in a library. H, he found out that none of the books had the information he needed. He suffered a heavy loss (损失), but came up with a good idea: If his company could publish such a book with all the world records, he was sure that he could make a lot of money.
Everything was hard at the beginning. Beaver had great din collecting the unusual records. But when the first Guinness Book came out in 1995, it sold like hot cakes. In fact, his book has rone of the best sellers for many years.
Today, the book is published throughout the world. Every year, a new book is published to keep up with the crecords. It is one of the most pbooks in the world. By now almost everyone agrees that reading the book is not only a lot of fun, but also an eye-opener.
