An adolescent boy sails to the remote monasteries and hermitages of Mount Athos. His spiritual and erotic wanderings in the picturesque surroundings of the Holy Mountain take both author and reader on a journey of self-discovery.<BR>Augieras decribed Athos as a place where you "find everything within yourself", and the experiences in this book as a "sojourn in the Land of the Spirits according to the strictest Buddhist or Pythagorean Orthodoxy".<BR>Described variously as an anti-Christian nomad, a barbarian in the West and a madman, Augieras is one of France's great underground writers. Like its author, Journey to Mount Athos is full of subtle, ancient wisdom.