（1） FEW modern travel writers excite more hostility and awe than Sir Wilfred Thesiger, who died in 2003.

（2） Homosexuality, latent or otherwise, explains him, they conclude, pointing to the photographs he took of beautiful youths.

（3） Moreover, he admits as much himself in his autobiography and elsewhere.

（4） I don't delude myself that I succeed but I get my interest and pleasure trying.

（5） As for his sexuality, Mr Maitland refers coyly to occasional “furtive embraces and voyeuristic encounters”, presumably with men.

（6） Mr Maitland seems to have interviewed almost nobody black or brown.

（7） a useful companion to the explorer's autobiography, “The Life of My Choice”.

（8） firelight on a half-turned face