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

Name: All for a Few Perfect Waves The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora
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ISBN: 9780060773311

ISBN-10: 0060773316

ISBN-13: 9780060773311

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Rensin

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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,…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.56" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Foreword



DoraWorld


Loner



Same Son of Different Fathers



The Vintage Years


Rebel



Portrait of the Artist as a Young Wave Rider



The Angry Young Man of Surfing



Throwing a Monkey Wrench into the Works



What's in It for Me?



Da Cat



The Point of No Return


Outlaw



Horseman of the Apocalypse



Whereabouts Unknown



Honorable Gentleman, Guest of the State


Wanderer



Sink or Swim



Deep Cover



You've Got to Ride the Wave in the Direction It's Going



In Search of Da Cat



Da Cat in Search of Himself



Man Overboard



All for a Few Empty Waves


Legend



It's a Hell of a Thing



Million Waves to Darkness



The Legend Lives


Paddle Out


Dora's World


Acknowledgments


Photo and Other Credits