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

There will never be another surfer like Miki "Da Cat" Dora. For 20 years, the dashing and enigmatic dark prince of California surfing dominated the Malibu waves and his peers' imaginations, blazing a rebel trail that would inspire generations to come.

But when the sport exploded into the mainstream and surfing changed forever, Dora's paradise was lost.

Outraged at gridlocked swells and a scene that had grown ever more commodified, Dora eventually fled Malibu, seeking empty waves - and anonymity - beyond America.

He'd also run afoul of the law, and he led the authorities on a seven-year chase around the globe.

After his arrest and imprisonment, he would return to America once in a while, but never again to live, and in the end, only to die.

Dora would never give up searching for the spirit of the Malibu he'd lost.

Wherever he made his home - New Zealand, South Africa, France - he personified the rebel heart of surfing and became a legend in his own time.

This brilliant biography, based on interviews with more than three hundred people who knew Dora, finally uncovers the truth about surfing's most seductive and complicated icon.

It is the story of one man's insistence on personal freedom - and the rewards and the costs that brings.

It is also a story of innocence lost, of the growth and commercialization of the California lifestyle.

Loner. Rebel. Wanderer. Legend. The life of Miki Dora is the greatest surf story (n)ever told.

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Book Details

Author: David Rensin
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: It Books
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060773332
ISBN-13: 978-0060773335
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds