This study is one of the first in the field of historical geography to be published in Canada. By the analysis of over 1200 maps, Professor Clark studies agriculture as the dominant economic activity of Prince Edward Island and traces with remarkable clarity through the changing patterns of land culture throughout the province.

Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) gave the University of London Lectures in Geography for 1953--4 at the University College, London. He was a professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography at Rutgers University until 1951, and then was a professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin till his death.