The Globemakers

The Curious Story of Their Craft Peter Bellerby

The beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the globes it has inspired, told from the workshop of one of the world's last remaining handcrafted globemakers

Peter Bellerby is an artisan globemaker whose company Bellerby & Co is one of only two handcrafted globemakers in the world. His team of craftspeople make exquisite celestial, terrestrial, historical and planetary globes for customers round the world. The story began when Peter attempted to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday but couldn’t. He decided to make one himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this lost craft.

This beautiful and tactile book uses illustration, photography and narrative to tell the story of our globe and many different globes it has inspired. The chapters take us through the journey of how to build a globe and include vignettes on history, art history, astronomy and physics, as well as the day-to-day craftsmanship at the workshop itself.

At the heart of the book are the globes themselves, or ‘earth apples’ as they were first known, whose ‘overview effect’ can’t help but remind us of our individual insignificance.

Peter Bellerby is founder of artisan globemakers Bellerby & Co. Globemakers. After a successful career in television, Peter Bellerby was running a music venuebowling alley in London, when he went on a search for a special globe for his father's 80th birthday. Not finding what he wanted, he set about making a globe himself by hand, which was the start of an arduous and fantastic journey that led to the founding of his company in 2008. Bellerby & Co. have won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the international trade category twice, in 2018 and 2021. Peter lives in London with his partner, who runs the Bellerby & Co. Globemakers sales, marketing and publicity departments.

31 August 2023

HARDBACK / 9781526600950 / £30.00

EXPORT TPB / 9781526600967 / £16.99

EBOOK / 9781526600974 / £21.00

TERRITORY: World All Languages

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ANZ Pub Date 31 October 2023

TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $44.99

14 September 2023

HARDBACK / 9781526650870 / £25.00

EBOOK / 9781526650900 / £17.50

TERRITORY: World All Languages

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ANZ Pub Date 28 November 2023

HARDBACK / AUS $49.99 / NZ $54.99