Wed, Oct 12, 2016 - 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Robertson Library - 308
Free
UPEI’s Robertson Library is hosting a new book event series this fall called “Open Pages,” which will feature local authors speaking about their books: what inspired them, what they learned, what they shared. The public is warmly invited to this free series, which takes place in the second-floor lounge of UPEI library on one Wednesday evening of each month, over this fall. Light refreshments will be served, and books will be available for sale and signing.
The first event in “Open Pages” is happening Wednesday, October 12, 7 pm, and will feature the new book, Time and a Place: An Environmental History of PEI, published by Island Studies Press at UPEI.
Time and a Place is the first environmental history of Prince Edward Island, and the first such history of any Canadian province. It features 12 essays, and explores how the Island has evolved from the Ice Age to the Information Age. One of the book’s strengths is the diversity among its expert authors. They discuss agriculture, fisheries and forestry with some topics in common, including climate change, and they discuss how people have affected the Island’s fields, forests, and waters, and in turn – how nature has affected Islanders.
Several of the book’s contributors plus two of its editors, Ed MacDonald and marine biologist Irene Novaczek, will talk about Time and a Place, and encourage discussion on its content.
For more information on the Open Pages series, contact Joan Sinclair at Island Studies Press, ispstaff@upei.ca, or Simon Lloyd at UPEI, slloyd@upei.ca.
For more detail on the book Time and a Place, see “Recent Titles” at upei.ca/isp.