The Golden Coast Author:Philip Rooney The Golden Coast tells the story of a galley, built and rigged in the Ringsend shipyards of Dublin, which sailed for the Levant and mysteriously vanished for five years, returning as mysteriously as it had disappeared. Philip Rooney's account of what happened to the good ship Ouzel during those five years along the golden coast of the Mediterran... more »ean is a dramatic tale of pressed men and murder in the night, desperate combat and storms at sea, slavery and chains on the Barbary Coast.
Captain Owen Massey, with his light dancing step; Rick Sheridan, the young shipbuilder; and the lovely Margaret Reid are among the central figures in this eventful and fascinating story, a tale of the sort that Stevenson himself might have conceived.« less