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  • Bash Scripting for Beginners: Learn to Automate Linux Tasks Step-by-Step

    by Alan Frost ...
    Stop Repeating Tedious Tasks. Start Automating with Bash Scripting.Are you tired of manually renaming files, running the same commands over and over, or performing repetitive system administration tasks? There is a better way. Unlock the power of Linux automation with "Bash Scripting for Beginners," your step-by-step guide to mastering the command line and making your computer work for you.This ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Botany Bay and the First Fleet

    The Real Story

    by Alan Frost ...
    Now in one definitive volume, Botany Bay and the First Fleet is a full, authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.In 1787 a convoy of eleven ships, carrying about 1400 people, set out from England for Botany Bay, on the east coast of New South Wales. In deciding on Botany Bay, British authorities hoped not only to rid Britain of its excess criminals, but also to gain a key strategic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology

    Bounty's Enigmatic Voyage

    by Alan Frost ...
    For the past 225 years, the story of the Bounty mutiny has captured the public's imagination. The reasons for the mutiny have been intensely debated for the past two centuries, with writers and historians oscillating between two poles of interpretation. Alan Frost looks past these narrative structures to shed new light on what truly happened during the infamous expedition. Reviewing previous ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Botany Bay Mirages

    by Frost, Alan ...
    The first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. The reality was quite different. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.The images he challenges are immediately familiar:* overcrowded and unhealthy English prison hulks ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • East Coast Country

    A North Queensland Dreaming

    by Frost, Alan ...
    East Coast Country beautifully evokes the landscape, history and culture of the sugarcane region of Queensland, the adjacent islands and the Great Barrier Reef, showing the region's distinctiveness within Australia.Alan Frost's beguiling writing is founded on a detailed knowledge of North Queensland history. In East Coast Country, geographical, botanical, geological and historical insights, as ... Read more

    $11.55 USD

  • Pacific Empires

    by Frost, Alan, Samson, Jane ...
    A new interest in European maritime exploration was aroused with the publication of the first volume of J. C. Beaglehole's edition of The Journals of Captain James Cook in 1955. In the forty-odd years since then, our knowledge of this exploration—and of the imperialism of which it was a part—has expanded enormously.We now recognise that the scientific endeavours, once seen as disinterested ... Read more

    $13.71 USD

  • Audiobook

    Bash Scripting for Beginners

    Learn to Automate Linux Tasks Step-by-Step

    by Alan Frost ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Stop Repeating Tedious Tasks. Start Automating with Bash Scripting.Are you tired of manually renaming files, running the same commands over and over, or performing repetitive system administration tasks? There is a better way. Unlock the power of Linux automation with "Bash Scripting for Beginners," your step by step guide to mastering the command line ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Unauthorised History of Australia

    by David Hunt ...
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    Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Arthur Phillip

    Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy

    by Michael Pembroke ...
    As a captain in the Georgian navy Arthur Phillips integrity, intelligence and persistence made him perfectly suited to the role that history and circumstance presented to him in 1788, but landing the First Fleet at Botany Bay was only one of many achievements in a captivating life.His is a story of political intrigue, eighteenth-century sailing ships, and the race for economic and geographic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    by Grace Karskens ...
    The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city.From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original ... Read more

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  • Hellhole of the Pacific

    by Richard Wolfe ...
    In the 1830s Kororareka was known as the 'hell-hole of the Pacific'. Whalers, sealers, escaped convicts, seamen, traders and adventurers descended upon this small cove in the Bay. Grog-shops and the oldest profession in the world abounded. At one stage the town was said to be harbouring 'a greater number of rogues than any other spot of equal size in the universe'. Some whaling captains steered ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • The Life of George Bass

    Surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment

    by Miriam Estensen ...
    On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor the Venus completed the voyage. They simply vanished into the Pacific. The questions are many. Was the Venus wrecked on the coast of New Zealand? ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus