Valley of the Moon

The road novel that gave Sonoma Valley its nickname from the renowned nineteenth-century American author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In Oakland, California, former boxer Billy Roberts and his wife, Saxon, have a turbulent marriage, disrupted by the social issues of turn-of-the-century urban Californiaincluding labor strikes and violence.

So Billy and Saxon embark on a quest through the rural countryside, encountering a Portuguese settlement and an artists' colony before finally finding happiness on a farm of their own in the Sonoma Valley. ';Jack London's novel Valley of the Moon describes the journey of a working-class couple from Oakland to a rural idyll in Glen Ellen, by way of labor strikes, boxing matches and an artist's colony in Carmel.' Sonoma Index-Tribune ';Pick up a copy of Jack London's novel, The Valley of The Moon....

In the book you'll get a feel for London's love of the land Jack came to call home.' Sonoma Valley Wine