'A book as beautiful as the craft it describes, The Globemakers is an inspirational story of a craftsmans dogged pursuit for perfection. Its written with the intricacy of someone who can capture the fine details of our vast planet in something small enough to sit on your desk' * Rebecca Struthers, author of The Hands of Time * 'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art' * Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking * 'Absolutely fascinating from beginning to end - an adventure like no other!' * Alice Loxton * 'The Globemakers is a lovely object, beautifully conceived and skillfully executed. With its digressive text boxes, sketches and photographs, it encourages the reader to linger and explore. In that sense the rectangular book echoes the round object it chroniclesGlobes are like other anachronisms that reflect the way things were: solid, durable, based on a knowable past instead of an uncertain future. A beautiful globe in a handsome library is the essence of romance. In this sense, it is right that a book should be the medium to commemorate Bellerby & Cos unlikely success. Yet artisanship of this type does something else: It rewards a desire for tactile engagement in a digital era, when so much daily ephemera comes and goes with our hands never touching it. Mr. Bellerby captures this basic human impulse by reporting what many visitors to his studio request. After admiring a globe and then tentatively stepping closer, they often askto his delight'May I spin it? * Wall Street Journal * 'BeautifulBellerbys love of globes is contagiousInterspersed with Bellerbys account of his progress are interesting factoids about the planet, the heavens, the need to update maps, the tilt of the earth, the role of the equator in both the earth and on globes, and many other tidbits' * Washington Independent Review of Books * 'The Globemakers brings us inside Bellerby's gorgeous studio to learn how he and his team of cartographers and artists bring these stunning celestial, terrestrial, and planetary objects to life. Along the way he tells stories of his adventure and the luck along the way that shaped the companyan enlightening exploration of globes and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universeAs fascinating as it is informative' * Midwest Book Review *
