A working-class Oakland couple flee the corrupt city to seek a farming life in the California valleys. London's agrarian novel.
Books mentioned in The Valley of the Moon (8)
Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall: “He opened the top one, Bolton Hall's "Three Acres and Liberty," and read to them of a man who walked six hundred and fifty miles a year in cultivating, by old-fashioned methods, twenty acres, from which he harvested three thousand bushels of poor potatoes; and of another man, a "new" farmer, who…”
Fields, Factories and Workshops by Peter Kropotkin: “They were: Wickson's "California Fruits," Wickson's "California Vegetables," Brooks' "Fertilizers," Watson's "Farm Poultry," King's "Irrigation and Drainage," Kropotkin's "Fields, Factories and Workshops," and Farmer's Bulletin No.”
California Fruits and How to Grow Them by Edward J. Wickson: “They were: Wickson's “California Fruits,” Wickson's “California Vegetables,” Brooks' “Fertilizers,””
California Vegetables by Edward J. Wickson: “They were: Wickson's "California Fruits," Wickson's "California Vegetables," Brooks' "Fertilizers," Watson's "Farm Poultry," King's "Irrigation and Drainage," Kropotkin's "Fields, Factories and Workshops," and Farmer's Bulletin No.”
Afloat in the Forest by Thomas Mayne Reid: “Saxon read the title. It was "Afloat in the Forest."”