Part B of Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and Mystagogue reconstructs his fantasy world and contends that his 'sufficient price' theory of colonial land sales was part of his self-centred fictional universe.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and Mystagogue
Part A of Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and Mystagogue argues that, far from being an imperial visionary, he was in fact remarkably myopic. Part A also offers a bleak account of the abduction of Ellen Turner.