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. 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 andto this dayinspires 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 forevermany say for the worse. Disenchanted Dora railed against the ruination; angry that the waves were no longer his own he fought backor found better things to do. Dora was also an avid sportsman raconteur philosopher travelerand 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 hed 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 Doras never-before-told story David Rensin spent four years interviewing more than three hundred of Doras friends enemies family members lovers and peersnone of whom would previously talk in depth about himto uncover the truth about surfings 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.