There are 8,000 men in the monastic community of Mount Athos—and for more than 1,000 years not one female has been allowed to set foot there. Not a hen, not a cow—and, above all, not a woman... To ace woman reporter Maryse Choisy, who revealed the world of the Paris prostitute in A Month Among the Girls, the challenge was irresistible. Disguised—extremely thoroughly—as a man, she became the first and only woman to crash this male sanctuary and spend a month among the men. The result is a sheer adventure in reporting—and a daring glimpse of a man's world.