Howard Pearce
Brisbane: Howard Pearce, 2016-2020.

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, and Volume II the Channel Country, Carpentaria and Cape York; this set includes the supplement published four years later, ‘A Folio of Measured Architectural Drawings’. 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. A single physical holding recorded in Trove, at the National Library of Australia, which does not include the folio of drawings; the University of Queensland holds a digital copy in its eSpace repository.