27 MARCH 1959, Page 24

Ends of the Earth

World Within. By, Tom Harrisson. (Cresset Press, 30s.) First, a lovingly remembered, some- times elegantly, sometimes obscurely, always evocatively written reconstruction of life among the head-hunting and hitherto virtually unknown Kelabits of remoter Borneo; second, a brisker, exciting, true adventure story of how the author, a wartime major, was dropped by parachute to lead them into action against the occupying Japanese. On two quite different levels of theme and style this long book is continuously enthrall- ing, a double masterpiece.