'In Semiologies of Travel David Scott offers the reader a veritable kaleidoscope of literature, images, and criticism in order to illustrate how the experience of travel demands its own sort of reading. … a lucid and poetic reflection on the semiologies of our time. … For the reader interested in the way semiologies directly affect our experience of the world, Scott offers practical and clear explanations of how we read.' French Forum

'The author successfully avoids the diachronic approach common to many surveys of travel literature in order to create connections, intertextual or otherwise, between authors and texts either from different period or concerned with often very different locales … The field of reference is wide … Where the study excels is in its Peircian explorations, complex yet illuminating … Semiologies of Travel is to be read … as a challenging intervention in studies in travel writing, outlining an exemplary semiological approach at a time when the field is rapidly elaborating its own critical terminology and associated research paradigms.' MLR

'David Scott's innovative study of the semiologies of travel is a welcome addition to the growing field of works analysing francophone representations of travel. … As the first full-length study to analyse the relationship between travel and semiotics, this important new work paves the way for new modes of investigating travel in the twenty-first century.' French Studies