The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other, for the black current has the power to stop them crossing.
Only women can travel repeatedly up and down the river, but when Yaleen joins the boating guild and becomes a riverwoman, she is singled out to follow an even more extraordinary path...
- ISBN10 0586063870
- ISBN13 9780586063873
- Publish Date 22 August 1985 (first published 26 April 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 August 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Grafton
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English