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Sir Wilfred’s critics invariably sing the same chorus. They accuse him of hypocrisy, noting that his part-time primitive lifestyle required a private income and good connections to obtain travel permits. They argue that he deluded himself about the motives of his adored tribal companions. In Kenya, where he lived for two decades towards the end of his life, his Samburu "sons" are calculated to have fleeced him of at least $ 1m. Homosexuality, latent or otherwise, explains him, they conclude, pointing to the photographs he took of beautiful youths.
This may all be true, but it does not diminish his achievements. Moreover, he admits as much himself in his autobiography and elsewhere, in 1938, before his main travels, for example, Sir Wilfred wrote of his efforts to adopt foreign ways:" I don’t delude myself that I succeed but I get my interest and pleasure trying."
In this authorised biography,Alexander Maitland adds a little colour to the picture, but no important details. He describes the beatings the explorer suffered at his first boarding school. Quoting from Sir Wilfred’s letters, he traces the craggy traveler’s devotion to his dead father, his mother and three brothers.At times, Sir Wilfred sounds more forgiving, especially of friends, and more playful than his reputation has suggesteD、As for his sexuality, Mr. Maitland refers coyly to occasional "furtive embraces", presumably with men. Wearisome as this topic has become, Mr. Maitland achieves nothing by skirting it; and his allusion to Sir Wilfred’s "almost too precious" relationship with his mother is annoyingly vague.
There may be a reason why Mr. Maitland struggles for critical distance. He writes that he and Sir Wilfred were long-standing friends, but he fails to mention that he collaborated with the explorer on four of his books and later inherited his London flat. If Mr. Maitland found it so difficult to view his late friend and benefactor objectively, then perhaps he should not have trieD、An earlier biography by MichaelAsher, who scoured the deserts to track down Sir Wilfred’s former fellow travellers, was better; Mr. Maitland seems to have interviewed almost nobody black or brown.
His book is, however, a useful companion to the explorer’s autobiography, The Life of MyChoice. Hopefully, it will also refer readers back to Sir Wilfred’s two great books, and to sentences as lovely as this:" Memories of that first visit to the Marshes have never left me: firelight on a half-turned face, the crying of geese, duck flighting in to feed, a boy’s voice singing somewhere in the dark, canoes moving in procession down a waterway, the setting sun seen crimson through the smoke of burning reed-beds, narrow waterways that wound still deeper into the Marshes."
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推断题。由题干中的关键词critics定位至第三段。首句是过渡句，引出第二句中Sir Wilfred对批评家们对他批评的反应：he admits as much himself in his autobiography and elsewhere。从第三句的具体解释“比如，他曾写到，1938年在一系列重要旅程开始前利用过外交途径，‘到底成功与否，我不想欺骗自己，但是趣味和快乐终究来之不易。’” 可知，此处是说Wilfred承认一些事实，但这不等同于他认为那些批评很有道理，排除[B]，只是没有为自己辩解而已，[C]符合文意。[A]未提及，排除。[D]是对adopt foreign ways(利用过外交途径)的曲解，排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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