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For years I have tried to read Joanne Fletcher's 'The Search for Nefertiti' but I never got anywhere. Reading it again I now remember why... She spends the first 38 pages talking about why she became an Egyptologist- her aunty telling her stories about when Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered, arguing with school history teaches, her first trip to Egypt as a child, the early scholars in Egypt who influenced her obsession with Nefertiti... Etc etc etc. Everything she says in 38 pages could gave been summerised in about 4 pages! So annoying. I don't know how she ever had the book published. I might have to look up academic reviews about the book.
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