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A little obsession is a healthy thing, which is fortunate as Emma Levine is a woman obsessed. All she can think about, it seems, is sport. Her first work was about the Indian national fixation for cricket. Her new book, A Game of Polo With a Headless Goat, charts her year-long ramble through west and central Asia in search of some of the strangest sports ever devised. Polo played with a headless goat (and with no mallets), Buz Kashi as it is known, hails from Afghanistan. Levine is acutely observant and writes with a sharp, straightforward style. During her trave
A little obsession is a healthy thing, which is fortunate as Emma Levine is a woman obsessed. All she can think about, it seems, is sport. Her first work was about the Indian national fixation for cricket. Her new book, A Game of Polo With a Headless Goat, charts her year-long ramble through west and central Asia in search of some of the strangest sports ever devised. Polo played with a headless goat (and with no mallets), Buz Kashi as it is known, hails from Afghanistan. Levine is acutely observant and writes with a sharp, straightforward style. During her trave