基本信息出版社：Hodder Paperback
页码：640 页
出版日期：2007年06月
ISBN：0340938358
International Standard Book Number：0340938358
条形码：9780340938355
EAN：9780340938355
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Hodder Great Reads

内容简介 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.
作者简介 Nancy Cato spent her working life in the literary field -- as a poet, novelist and reporter on an Adelaide daily paper. In 1984 she was made a member of the Order of Australia. She died in 2000.
媒体推荐 'Its precision of language, firmness of characterisation and richness of the Australian setting invites comparison with The Thorn Birds' -- Publishers Weekly 'A novel on the grand scale, with Australia as its background and a beautiful riverboat skipper its wilful heroine.' -- She