Homestead & Habitat: Central and Northern Australia

Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016.
First Edition.

30.5cm x 25cm. ix, 463; ix, 414 pages, 2 volumes, colour illustrations. Black cloth, illustrated jackets, cloth slipcase.

A privately published survey of the historic heritage of central and northern Australia, structured by the river systems and landforms of the regions in which Howard Pearce worked for over forty years as a heritage adviser to federal, state and Territory governments. The work combines photography, architectural drawing, historical archaeology and regional history. Volume I covers Lake Eyre, the Centre and the Top End; Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York. The publication states that over 600 places are described across thirty chapters, with some 2000 colour photographs, site histories, archaeological notes and architectural descriptions, most based on primary research. Historical photographs from the author’s own collection are included, together with his measured drawings of significant places. Pearce published a third supplementary volume of measured architectural drawings in 2020. Physical copies unrecorded in Trove and OCLC; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.

Edges uncut. Very minor shelf wear to jackets. Near Fine Condition.

AU$800