What seemed like a simple 80th birthday gift inadvertently sparked a decade-long artisanal adventure. In 2008, when Peter Bellerby sought a high-quality handmade globe for his father, he was astonished to discover that the traditional craft of globemaking had almost vanished in the age of industrialization. His journey, from tinkering in a small workshop at the back of his house, overcoming numerous failures with plaster molds, inks, and the elasticity of map paper, to founding the world’s only bespoke globemaking workshop, is chronicled in the book The Globemakers. The reading passage The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft (Cambridge IELTS 21 – Test 4, Passage 3) is a book review that celebrates extraordinary perseverance and the revival of an ancient artistic heritage.

Under the theme of Artisanal Craftsmanship & Cartographic History, Passage 3 concludes the Cambridge 21 series with a system of high-level academic questions. The test assesses candidates’ abilities through three question types: Summary Completion with a Box, Yes/No/Not Given, and Multiple Choice. The detailed breakdown, full text translation, and core academic vocabulary provided below will help you master this reading passage.</