All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora (Paperback)

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• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Number of Pages: 464
• ISBN: 0060773332
• WAPI (Tower ID): 112218215
• Release Date: April 1, 2009
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David Rensin recounts the rebellious life of Miki Dora, who was an innovator and pioneer in two different arenas of social defiance--surfing and credit card fraud. Dora was one of Malibu's earliest wave-riders, though he soon began a global quest for beaches uncluttered by the masses of imitators that flocked to take up the fledgling sport. Unfortunately, he financed his nomadic wanderings with other people's credit cards, usually without their awareness or approval. Thus, his romantic quest to attain personal fulfillment through surfing solitude eventually culminated in a lonely prison cell. Bummer, dude.

There will never be another surfer like Miki "Da Cat" Dora.

"All for a Few Perfect Waves" is the story of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the dashing and enigmatic rebel who, for twenty years, was the king of Malibu surfers. He dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and--to this day--inspires the fantasies of decades of Dora wannabes who began to swarm his pristine paradise after the movie "Gidget" helped surfing explode into the mainstream and changed it forever--many say for the worse.

Disenchanted, Dora railed against the ruination; angry that the waves were no longer his own, he fought back--or found better things to do. Dora was also an avid sportsman, raconteur, philosopher, traveler--and scam artist of wide repute. When, in 1973, he finally ran afoul of the law, he soon abandoned America and led the FBI and Interpol on a seven-year chase around the globe. At the same time, he never gave up searching for (and occasionally finding) the empty waves and spirit of the Malibu he'd lost. From homes in New Zealand to South Africa to France, he continued to personify the rebel heart of surfing and has been widely acknowledged as "the most relentlessly committed surfer of all time."

The "New York Times" named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce." "Vanity Fair" called him "a dark prince of the beach." The "Times" (London) wrote, "A hero to a generation of beach bums. He was tanned . . . good-looking . . . trouble."

To capture Dora's never-before-told story, David Rensin spent four years interviewing more than three hundred of Dora's friends, enemies, family members, lovers, and peers--none of whom would previously talk in depth about him--touncover the truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner, charismatic prince, chief antihero, committed loner, and enduring mystery. The result is a riveting and living portrait of an uncommon character whose unique influence on surfing has never waned, and who became what most can never be: a legend in his own time.

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