The Politician and the Pedestrian

De: Stephany Evans Steggall

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Politician and the Pedestrian is a fictionalised account of two men, one white and one Aboriginal, who grew up on Jimbour Station west of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The book is based on the true story of Joshua Bell, the future debonair politician, and the Aboriginal boy Sambo, the fastest foot runner in the world in the 1880s.
The lives of Sambo and Joey diverge, testing their childhood friendship, as one enters races and the other enters politics. Their story is intricately entwined with Queensland colonial history, especially the ill-treatment of Indigenous people, the domination of squatters, like JP Bell, Joey’s father, on the land and in parliament, and the men and women who moulded the new state of Queensland.