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''All The Rivers Run'' is an Australia n Historical Novel by Nancy Cato , first published in 1958 . It was also made into a popular Television Miniseries in 1983 , starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters . The film is marketed with the tagline ''A sweeping saga of one woman's struggle for survival''. STORY ''All The Rivers Run'' follows the life of English girl Philadelphia Gordon, from the time when she is shipwrecked and orphaned off the coast of Victoria in 1890 . She spends most of her life around Echuca , on the Murray River , and invests some of her inheritance in a paddle wheeled Riverboat . Her life is forever changed when she meets frontier paddleboat captain Brenton Edwards. Gordon marries Edwards and forgoes her burgeoning career as a photographer to settle down on his farm, which is ravaged by drought during their first year together. MAIN CAST
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