In Roald Dahl‘s book, Danny champion of the world why does Danny achieve that status? Sure, he helped his town and caught quite a few pheasants but champion of the world? Really? What about a peasant boy in a remote African village that walks miles every day, just to get drinkable water for his family? Shouldn’t it just be, Danny, champion of a small town in England?
To many people, the small town that they are born and raised in IS their entire world.
According to the father, no one has ever illegally caught more pheasants at one time.
If you look at the Guinness book of World records, you can be world champion of all kinds of random achievements.
But he is a proud dad. Who knows if someone else caught more some other time. The nature of poaching is that achievements will not be widely shared or publicized.