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y separately published work icon All the Rivers Run single work   novel   historical fiction  
Alternative title: A River Not Yet Tamed
Is part of All the Rivers Run Nancy Cato , 1958 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
  • Author:agent Nancy Cato http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/cato-nancy
Issue Details: First known date: 1958... 1958 All the Rivers Run
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'Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper and a beautiful, independent woman.

'Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River in Australia with her kindly uncle and strict aunt, seemingly destined for a conventional life. But then tragedy changes everything, and leads her to a successful career as a painter, and then to a meeting with the dashing captain of the paddle-steamer which bears her name.' 

Source: Publisher's blurb (Hachette edition)

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon All the Rivers Run Peter Yeldham , Gwenda Marsh , Vince Moran , Colin Free , ( dir. George T. Miller et. al. )agent Melbourne : Crawford Productions Seven Network , 1983 Z1489602 1983 series - publisher film/TV historical fiction

Based on the novel by Nancy Cato, All the Rivers Run begins in 1892 with young Englishwoman Philadelphia 'Delie' Gordon struggling to the Australian shore after being shipwrecked. Except for crusty old sailor Tom Critchley, the shipwreck kills all the other people on the ship, including Delie's family. Delie is subsequently taken in by her kindly Uncle Charles and termagant Aunt Hester, whose small farm is situated beside the Murray River, near the inland port of Echuca. The narrative follows Delie for the next decade or so of her life. She suffers through the difficulties of adolescent love and rebels against conformity, and eventually marries, has children, and pursues a career on the river. Delie later attains commercial and critical success as a painter and earns her Master's Certificate, becoming the first female riverboat captain on the Murray River.

Notes

  • Later included in and gave its title to the 1978 edition of the trilogy. Translated into eight languages.

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Notes:
Variant title 'A River Not Yet Tamed' appears in 1978 publication.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Heinemann ,       1958 .
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      Held at: Monash University Monash University Library
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    y separately published work icon All the Rivers Run Nancy Cato , New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 1978 Z250547 1978 selected work novel historical fiction New York (City) : St. Martin's Press , 1978 pg. 1-133
Alternative title: Visos upės teka : romanas
Language: Lithuanian
    • Vilnius,
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      Lithuania,
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      c
      Former Soviet Union,
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      Eastern Europe, Europe,      :       Rosma ,       1994 .
      Extent: 2 v.p.
      ISBN: 9986000157
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All the Rivers Run Nancy Cato , 1980 single work extract
— Appears in: The Crossing : An Anthology of Australian Adolescence 1980; (p. 72-75)
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Works about this Work

Reading All the Rivers Run, Nancy Cato's Eco-Historical Epic 2013 single work
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 55 2013; (p. 119-132) 'Nancy Cato’s three-volume epic All The Rivers Run first appeared between 1958 and 1962. The River Murray is the central presence in the narrative, which encompasses the river’s immense length, over 2,000 kilometres, from mountain springs to the sea, and its colourful history from 1890 until the great flood of 1956. During much of that period the Murray was intensively used to transport goods and people, as well as for irrigation as it is still today. The river was subjected to massive re-shaping, in the early twentieth century, when the construction of a series of weirs and locks attempted to transform it into a more reliable medium for transport, and a more reliable source of water for agricultural and industrial uses. All the Rivers Run offers a vision of the Murray as a region, defined by the river itself, with its towns, industries and peoples, its ecology and mythology. What strikes a reader of this novel today, when we are acutely aware of how drastically the whole Murray-Darling river system is endangered, is the way it incorporates the ecological as well as the social history of the river.' (Author's introduction)
Writing on the Sheep's Back Nicole Alexander , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , June vol. 44 no. 2 2012; (p. 13-15) 'Bush fiction has a long and proud tradition in Australia but it has enjoyed a new lease of life over the past decade. Why is it booming agaian and what's different this time.' Nicole Alexander.
At the Heart of the Novelist, a Burning Passion Malcolm Andrews , 1990 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 21-22 April 1990; (p. 2)
Writing on the Sheep's Back Nicole Alexander , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , June vol. 44 no. 2 2012; (p. 13-15) 'Bush fiction has a long and proud tradition in Australia but it has enjoyed a new lease of life over the past decade. Why is it booming agaian and what's different this time.' Nicole Alexander.
At the Heart of the Novelist, a Burning Passion Malcolm Andrews , 1990 single work biography
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 21-22 April 1990; (p. 2)
Reading All the Rivers Run, Nancy Cato's Eco-Historical Epic 2013 single work
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 55 2013; (p. 119-132) 'Nancy Cato’s three-volume epic All The Rivers Run first appeared between 1958 and 1962. The River Murray is the central presence in the narrative, which encompasses the river’s immense length, over 2,000 kilometres, from mountain springs to the sea, and its colourful history from 1890 until the great flood of 1956. During much of that period the Murray was intensively used to transport goods and people, as well as for irrigation as it is still today. The river was subjected to massive re-shaping, in the early twentieth century, when the construction of a series of weirs and locks attempted to transform it into a more reliable medium for transport, and a more reliable source of water for agricultural and industrial uses. All the Rivers Run offers a vision of the Murray as a region, defined by the river itself, with its towns, industries and peoples, its ecology and mythology. What strikes a reader of this novel today, when we are acutely aware of how drastically the whole Murray-Darling river system is endangered, is the way it incorporates the ecological as well as the social history of the river.' (Author's introduction)
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Subjects:
  • Echuca, Echuca area, Goulburn - Campaspe area, Northern Victoria, Victoria,
  • Murray River,
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  • 1890s
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