The Globemakers (Hörbuch (Download))
The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Beautifully conceived and skillfully executed . . . encourages the reader to linger and explore." —The Wall Street Journal
"Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds—a journey through history, science, craft, and passion—spun me on my...
"Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds—a journey through history, science, craft, and passion—spun me on my...
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"Beautifully conceived and skillfully executed . . . encourages the reader to linger and explore." —The Wall Street Journal
"Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds—a journey through history, science, craft, and passion—spun me on my axis." —Dava Sobel, New York Times bestselling author of Longitude
The beautifully illustrated story of our globe and the globes it has inspired, told from inside the workshop of one of the world's last globemakers, with four-color photos throughout.
Many of us encounter a globe as children. We find a grown-up and ask, "Where are we?" They spin the globe and point to a minuscule dot amidst a massive expanse of sea and land. Thousands of questions follow. A profound convergence of art and science, a globe is the ultimate visualization of our place in our galaxy and universe. To be a globemaker requires a knowledge of geography, skilled engineering, drawing, and painting, and only a few people in history have ever really mastered the craft.
When Peter Bellerby set out to make a globe for his father's eightieth birthday, after failing to find a suitable one to purchase, he had no idea where the process would lead. He went on to establish Bellerby & Co, one of the only artisan globemakers in the world. 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 company.
A full-color photographic portrait of a lost art, The Globemakers is an enlightening exploration of globes, or "earth apples," as they were first known, and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe.
"Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds—a journey through history, science, craft, and passion—spun me on my axis." —Dava Sobel, New York Times bestselling author of Longitude
The beautifully illustrated story of our globe and the globes it has inspired, told from inside the workshop of one of the world's last globemakers, with four-color photos throughout.
Many of us encounter a globe as children. We find a grown-up and ask, "Where are we?" They spin the globe and point to a minuscule dot amidst a massive expanse of sea and land. Thousands of questions follow. A profound convergence of art and science, a globe is the ultimate visualization of our place in our galaxy and universe. To be a globemaker requires a knowledge of geography, skilled engineering, drawing, and painting, and only a few people in history have ever really mastered the craft.
When Peter Bellerby set out to make a globe for his father's eightieth birthday, after failing to find a suitable one to purchase, he had no idea where the process would lead. He went on to establish Bellerby & Co, one of the only artisan globemakers in the world. 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 company.
A full-color photographic portrait of a lost art, The Globemakers is an enlightening exploration of globes, or "earth apples," as they were first known, and their ability to show us ourselves and our place in an infinite universe.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Bellerby
- 2023, ungekürzte Lesung, Spieldauer: 256 Minuten
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1526650894
- ISBN-13: 9781526650894
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2023
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- Dateiformat: MP3
- Größe: 187 MB
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Englisch
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Bellerby
Peter Bellerby is a world-renowned globemaker and founder of artisan globemakers Bellerby & Co., the only truly bespoke makers of globes in the world. After a successful career in television, in 2008 Peter began his 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 2010. Bellerby & Co. Globemakers have won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the international trade category twice, in 2018 and 2021.@globemakers | bellerbyandco.com
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Beautifully conceived and skillfully executed . . . encourages the reader to linger and explore.
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