Open AccessBook Review: Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing
Author(s) -
Evan J. Davis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n2.184
Subject(s) - cricket , advertising , history , biology , business , zoology
Write a book about a topic so “weird and wacky” that no one has addressed it before and voila, you have the reference title in your field. Williams, an Englishwoman, found her niche by describing activities “that may be less familiar to American readers.” This includes sports as popular outside the US as cricket and events as obscure to everyone outside the U.K. as the Cotswold Olimpicks.