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There are hundreds of travel guides to the great continent Down Under, but not many that focus on the more unusual sightseeing spots like where you can watch the annual wheelbarrow pushing race, famous spots where miracles have taken place or where the oldest fish farm in the country is. If that’s the kind of sightseeing you’re after, then you need to read Cassowary Crossing: A Guide to Offbeat Australia by David Astle.

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Marc Llewellyn’s new book Finding Nino tells the story of Llewellyn, his wife, new-born baby and dog moving to the Italian island of Lipari. Spending a year or two in a Mediterranean country is not really the makings of a new and original travel story, although many of the most famous predecessors seem to focus on life in France rather than Italy, but Llewellyn does manage to put an original spin on the idea.

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Modality, the leading company in transforming high quality content for personal handheld media players, announced on Monday that you can now get Frommer’s travel guides on you iPhone and iPod.

Frommer’s travel guides are regarded as some of the best in the business. They have more than 300 types of guides and sell more then 2.5 million of them annually. The Frommer’s books features advice on trip planning, sight seeing, restaurants, lodging and so much more.

The 2008 editions of the Frommer’s New York, San Francisco, London and Paris guides are now available for download on Apple.com via their new Apple App Store and iTunes for $9.99. Modality says more guides will be released later this year. After downloading, the digital editions of these trusted guide books are then stored locally on your iPhone or iPod Touch, allowing you to browse through the ad-free travel content without an internet connection.

As a bonus, the Frommer’s for iPhone features interactive maps, location-based service and web and phone links.

“The Frommer’s titles offer travelers the same high-quality, reliable information as the popular paperback guides, but in a completely new way,” according to S. Mark Williams, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Modality. “Most travelers are already carrying these personal media devices with them. The expanded functionality of the iPhone and iPod offers ease of use and unlimited information at consumers’ fingertips, greatly enhancing their overall travel experience.”

Travelers who teach English as a second language to get around are a dime a dozen, and more of them are producing books about their experiences: but Gillian Kendall’s Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet is a bit more than “just another English teacher’s trip”.

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Mark Smith, also known as The Man in Seat 61, is iconic in European travelers’ circles for developing his incredibly comprehensive website, www.seat61.com. This site started as a kind of personal database explaining in a straightforward way how to travel by train anywhere in Europe, and now beyond as well. Smith’s personal preference for seat number 61 on the Eurostar train started the phenomenon and the website is the perfect first stop for anyone contemplating a rail journey. Read the full story

There’s beginning to be a long tradition of travel narratives depicting glorious summers in the French countryside, and before you pick up Martin Calder’s A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France you might be rather suspicious that this is just another one of them. In some ways it is, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing - many of us dream of a life in France with copious amounts of wine and fresh cheese and a good dose of fresh air. Read the full story

People the world over have heard of places like Tucson, Arizona or Nutbush, thanks to immortalized lyrics from the Beatles and Tina Turner. With hundreds of place names belonging to towns and cities he knew nothing about, George Miller set off around the United States to find out more about the places behind the lyrics. This journey produced the entertaining travelogue This is the Way to Amarillo. Read the full story

You’ll get a great taste of the wonders of Japan by reading Under the Osakan Sun by Hamish Beaton, a young New Zealander who spent three years working as a high school English teacher in Kanan town, an outlying suburb of Osaka. Read the full story

David Gessner’s new book is not just a bird book, like his previous one: Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond is quite definitely a travel book too, and not something that only bird lovers will appreciate. His journey follows the migration of the osprey he knows from Cape Cod all the way down to Venezuela.

A great hand-drawn map opens this book with a neat warning: “This map is for literary, not navigational, purposes”. This is followed by a note to the reader, explaining that the story is not simply one about birds but it is about human nature too, and especially the forces of migration and freedom. When he went on this trip, Gessner had just moved house and started a new job and with these themes on his mind, he decided to follow osprey south.

The “Fidel” of the title is one of the osprey that Gessner particularly tries to follow, but this story is not just a tale of seeing birds. It’s also about not seeing birds, and meeting all kinds of interesting people in the process, through parts of North, Central and South America. Fighting a self-proclaimed battle with the British Broadcasting Corporation who also happened to be filming a documentary on the topic, Gessner tries to make his journey unique, while surreptitiously using some of the information the BBC gathered to help him track the birds on their migration path. It’s a journey worth following.

In the tradition of WhereAmIWearing.com, New Zealand writer Joe Bennett bought a pack of five pieces of underwear from his local mega-market and then wondered where they really came from. Thus began a journey into China and beyond to find out Where Underpants Come From, subtitled From Checkout to Cotton Field - Travels Through the New China. Read the full story