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

    By David Rensin

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    For twenty years, Miki "Da Cat" Dora was the king of Malibu surfers—a dashing, enigmatic rebel who dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and who still inspires the fantasies of wannabes to this day. And yet, Dora railed against surfing's sudden post-Gidget popularity and the overcrowding of his once empty waves, even after this avid sportsman, iconoclast, and scammer of wide repute ran afoul of the law and led the FBI on a remarkable seven-year chase around the globe in 1974. The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce" and Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." To fully capture Dora's never-before-told story, David Rensin spent four years interviewing hundreds of Dora's friends, enemies, family members, lovers, and fellow surfers to uncover the untold truth about surfing's most outrageous practitioner, charismatic antihero, committed loner, and enduring mystery.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061868160
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    David Rensin

    David Rensin worked closely with Louis Zamperini for many years and cowrote Devil at My Heels, as well as fifteen other books, including five New York Times bestsellers.

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      Takes a little bit to get into... sort of starts with his legacy, before getting into his story more. Fascinating guy. There's a little bit of MP in this (not quite as good a book).