In The Geography of Home, MacDonald traces the rural Prince Edward Island that he grew up in from the late 1950s through the early 1970s, a landscape on the cusp of far-reaching change. The depiction of an era offered here is a mixed-media portrait, combining prose and poetry, history and memory. MacDonald writes that while history attempts to trace changes over time, “memories are the little, coloured stones that we collect to assemble a mosaic of our lived past"

The author bio:

Dr. Ed MacDonald is a professor emeritus from the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of If You’re Strong-hearted: Prince Edward Island in the Twentieth Century and co-author of The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island and has written, compiled, or co-edited 9 other books. In 2023-24 he was appointed to the Order of Canada and then the Order of Prince Edward Island for his work as an Island historian and teacher.