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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060773316
ISBN-13
9780060773311
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Book Title
All for a Few Perfect Waves : the Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Boating, Water Sports, Surfing, Sports
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Author
David Rensin
Format
Hardcover

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1.6 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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2007-030795
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For fifty years, surfing in Southern California has been shrouded in a myth wrapped in an enigma by the name of Miki Dora. Now, we have the facts. A magnificent book., In this vivid biography, Rensin takes on a daunting task: to clarify the clouded myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora ... Rensin lets Dora's friends, lovers and rivals tell the story. The result brings a remarkable focus to a man whose greatest accomplishments were written on water., Waves attempts to decode Dora through a near-cacophony of storytellers, ranging from the personal and intimate (ex-lovers and family) to the scurrilous and picaresque (whore-hopping pals, partners in crime)… should close the door on the need for further explorations of Da Cat., David Rensin has found the perfect subject. You may like Dora. You may hate him. But you will never ever tire of him through the very impressive shine of Rensin's reporting and writing., Engrossing. Rensin proves an inexhaustible interviewer, teasing out colorful tales never before set in print., The most complete portrait of Dora ever painted, but also a solid recounting of surfing's original boom years and a thin, peculiar slice of Americana in the late 1950s and early 60s... All for a Few Perfect Waves is much more than just another day at the beach., Until now enigmatic surfer legend Miki Dora's history was written only in water, but David Rensin's primo All for a Few Perfect Waves catches the life of this charismatic renegade., David Rensin doesn't shy from documenting Dora's multitude of sins-the stealing and swindling, the juvenile pranks, the prison terms-even as he celebrates the man's desire to live of a life of utter, and often utterly irresponsible, freedom., Miki took to his grave many stories that no one will ever know, but this book will also tell many and give new insight into his life. In the end only a select group knew the real person. I'm not sure I did-but almost., … a candid portrait... This book isn't just about surfing; it's about risking it all for complete personal freedom., Engrossing… Rensin proves an inexhaustible interviewer, teasing out colorful tales never before set in print., Above and beyond the call of unearthing the mystery that was Dora.a stunningly comprehensive tome.[an] incomparable body of work which will mess with both your mind and heart, the likes of which may forever set the literary sandbar, and rightfully so., Waves attempts to decode Dora through a near-cacophony of storytellers, ranging from the personal and intimate (ex-lovers and family) to the scurrilous and picaresque (whore-hopping pals, partners in crime). should close the door on the need for further explorations of Da Cat., . a candid portrait... This book isn't just about surfing; it's about risking it all for complete personal freedom., In times like these it turns out not only is there an oral history of Miki Dora, there must be. Great reportage., 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., Above and beyond the call of unearthing the mystery that was Dora…a stunningly comprehensive tome…[an] incomparable body of work which will mess with both your mind and heart, the likes of which may forever set the literary sandbar, and rightfully so.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
797.32092
Synopsis
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--to uncover 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., This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama or 'Book of Kings', both within Iran and in neighbouring lands. Later poets and writers not only looked to Firdausi's work for a model, but supplemented its stories with other narratives or absorbed the characters and the moral values of the poem into their own works. Several chapters focus on the literary traditions fed by the Shahnama , including reports of the continuing oral performances of its more popular stories. Others discuss Firdausi's impact on the creative imagination of the miniature painters who illustrated manuscript copies of the Shahnama in the courts of the Ottoman Empire, Moghul India, and the Central Asia Khanates up till the seventeenth century.Contributors include Gabrielle van den Berg, Francesca Leoni, Farhad Mehran, Bilha Moor, Adeela Qureshi, Ravshan Rahmoni, Julia Rubanovich, Karin Ruehrdanz, Jan Schmidt, Ivan Steblin-Kamenski, Zeren Tanindi, L'le Uluç, Evangelos Venetis, Olga Yastrebova, and Marjolijn van Zutphen., 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., In this utterly engrossing biography, the author of the bestselling "The Mailroom" goes beyond the myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora to reveal the truth behind one man's colorful and dramatic life and the sport he helped define. b&w photos throughout.
LC Classification Number
GV838.D67R46 2008

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