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Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper, a beautiful and independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River, seemingly destined for a conventional life. But tragedy leads her first to a successful career as a painter, then to marriage to the dashing captain of the paddle-steamer that bears her name. This epic novel, set against the panoramic countryside and winding rivers of Australia, is her story, as powerful and unforgettable as its heroine.… (más)
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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
-------ECCLESIASTES,1:7
Stars sweep and question not. This is enough, That life and death and joy and woe abide; And cause and sequence, and the course of Time; And Being's ceaseless tide Which, ever changing, runs, linked like a river . .
Edward Arnold: The Light of Asia
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High in the Australian Alps a little stream, just born, moves invisibly beneath the snow, or can be glimpsed through a blue-shadowed hole between the melting snow-bridges.
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Once more she was high in the Australian Alps where a little stream, just born, moved invisibly beneath the snow; and all the rivers ran towards the sea.
Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper, a beautiful and independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River, seemingly destined for a conventional life. But tragedy leads her first to a successful career as a painter, then to marriage to the dashing captain of the paddle-steamer that bears her name. This epic novel, set against the panoramic countryside and winding rivers of Australia, is her story, as powerful and unforgettable as its heroine.
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