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Many people dream of escaping the world and fleeing to some unspoiled tropical isle. Most of them settle for a couple of weeks in the Hamptons or a package tour to Puerto Rico. Not Gunnar Thorkild, the half-Polynesian, half-European hero of Morris West's latest novel. The grandson of a great Polynesian navigator as well as an instructor at the University of Hawaii, Thorkild publishes a paper claiming that even in this day of earth satellites and up-to-date hydrographic charts, there exists in the vastness of the Pacific an island known only to Polynesia...
...navigating by stars at night and by sun during the day. No matter what the weather, according to ancient Scandinavian sagas, the sun could al ways be located with the aid of magical "sun stones." Summarizing sunstone lore in a recent article in the archaeology magazine Skalk, Danish Archaeologist Thorkild Ramskou lamented that none of the sagas clearly describe the sun stone. "But there seems to be a possibility," he wrote, "that it was an instrument which in clouded weather could show where...
...Thorkild Jacobsen, a scholar of the languages and peoples of ancient Mesopotamia, has joined the Faculty as professor of Assyriology. He came to Harvard as visiting professor this year from the University of Chicago...
Married-Princess Erik of Denmark, 39, onetime Lois Frances Booth of Ottawa, whose marriage to Prince Erik of Denmark was annulled this year; to Thorkild Juelsberg, 34, her Danish secretary; in Zurich...