How was Life in the San Francisco Bay Area 100 years ago?? Jack London describes the difficulties for the working man growing up in urban California, as the labor unions struggled with strike-breakers and management. To escape this class struggle, the main characters set off to discover a better life ... a rural life. But where?? After "tramping" around for many months in the pursuit of happiness ... they discovered that opportunity in a valley 60 miles north of San Francisco. Jack London makes this 100-year old story come alive ... taking the reader right into the plot by exploring their hopes and dreams of finding their own "valley of the moon".