The Guinness Book of Records 1989 [antikvár]

The Story Betűnd The Guinness On Saturday 10 Nov 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver (1890-1967) was out shooting on The North Slob, by the river Slaney in County Wexford in the south-east of Ireland. Somé golden plover were missed by the party. That evening at Castlebridge House it was realised that it was not possible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird. In August 1954 argument arose as to whether grouse were even faster. Sir Hugh, managing director of Guinness thought that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in the 81 400 pubs in Britain and in Ireland, but there was no book with which to settle arguments about records. On 12 September 1954, Sir Hugh invited Norris and Ross McWhirter to see if their fact and figure agency in London could help. An office was set up at 107 Fleet Street and The RtHon intense work began on the first síim 198 page edition. The printers bound the first copy on 27 August 1955. Well before Christmas the Guinness Book was No. 1 on the bestsellers list. It has occupied this position every year since except 1957 and 1959 when it was not republished. The first US edition appeared in New York in 1956 followed by editions in French (1962) and Germán (1963). In 1967 there were first editions in Japanese, Spanish, Danish and Norwegian, while the following year editions were published in Swedish, Finnish and Italian. In the 'seventies there followed Dutch (1971); Portuguese (1974); Czechoslovak (1976); Hebrew, SerboCroat and Icelandic (all in 1977) and Slovenian (1978). In the 1980's translations into Greek, Indonesian, Chinese, Turkish, Hindi, Malay, Arabic, Thai, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hungárián will bring the totál to 262 editions in 35 languages. In November 1974 the Guinness Book earned its own place in the Guinness Book It had become the top selling copyright book in publishing history with sales of 23-9 milEari of iveagh lion. In October 1988 the global sales surpassed 60 millión which is equivalent to 168 stacks each as high as Mount Everest. PRESIDENT GUINNESS PLC OCTOBER 1988