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All For A Few Perfect Waves

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Reclusive and gregarious, cocksure and cryptic, uncompromising and contradictory, Miki Da Cat Dora was surfing s most outspoken practitioner, chief anti-hero and enduring mystery. At a time when the Beat poets were howling about the need to just, like, be yourself, man, Miki and a small group of social fringe-dwellers were realising those desires on the translucent swells of Southern California. But who was the real Miki Dora? Born in Los Angeles in 1934, Miklos Sandor Dora was one of the pioneers of the 50 s surf scene - chasing wave after perfect, empty wave, from San Onofre to Malibu to Rincon. But as the beaches became more crowded and the businessmen took over the sport, Miki turned his back on the culture that had made him a hero, preferring instead the life of an outlaw. As his scams caught up with him, in 1973 he was charged with fraud, but he skipped bail and went on the run. He was finally arrested in France in 1981 and spent a year behind bars in the US. After his release Dora quickly became an expatriate and settled variously in New Zealand, South Africa, and France. He would return America once in a while but never again to live, and in the end only to die. Yet t

About the Author :
David Rensin has written and cowritten twelve books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. His previous book The Mailroom- Hollywood History from the Bottom Up, an oral history of what it's like to start at the bottom in a talent agency mailroom while dreaming of the top, spent ten weeks on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list. He lives in Los Angeles.

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"Excellent" Observer "All For a Few Perfect Waves is a wonderful book. In the mysterious, magnificent and mercurial Miki Dora, David Rensin has found the perfect subject. You may like Dora. You may hate him. But you will never tire of him through the very impressive shine of Rensin's reporting and writing" -- Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights "Such is [Rensin's] skill in weaving the strands together that any suspicion the subject matter might be too inconsequential to justify 475 close-packed pages is soon rejected in favour of a desire to know what happened next" Independent "From the depths of hell to flying as high and as free as an eagle - and everything in between - All For a Few Perfect Waves left me laughing and crying at the same time" -- Greg Noll, world-renowned big wave rider


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780224075862
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0224075861
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 648 gr


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