Destination? THE PACIFIC – Batanes Islands. Herman Melville sails readers around the world.
At #15 on The Guardian’s 100 best novels of all time, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick sails readers around the world in a nearly endless pursuit. Along the way, he paints a vignette of the Pacific: “…for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still…”
Enjoy a brief passage of pure poetry from Melville at Destinationality (a free resource organizing classic literature passages about great destinations)
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