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 riv...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 the paddle steamer called Ps Philadelphia.