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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)

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence, published in 1920. That same year, her travelogue In Morocco also premiered.

On her journey from Tangier to Rabat, she wrote: “…until one has known the wilderness one cannot begin to understand the cities.”

Read more of her thoughtful, romantic prose and travel adventure at Destinationality