Book description
There will never be another surfer like Miki 'Da Cat' Dora. For
twenty years the dashing and enigmatic dark prince of California
surfing dominated the Malibu waves and his peers' imaginations,
blazing a trail that would inspire generations to come. But when the
sport exploded into the mainstream and surfing changed for ever,
Dora's paradise was lost.
Outraged at gridlocked swells and a scene that had grown ever more
commodified, Dora eventually fled Malibu, seeking empty waves - and
anonymity - beyond America. He'd also run afoul of the law, and he led
the authorities on a seven-year chase around the globe. Yet, Dora
would never give up searching for the spirit of the Malibu he'd lost.
Wherever he made his home - New Zealand, South Africa, France - he
personified the rebel heart of surfing and became a legend in his own time.
This brilliant biography, based on interviews with more than three
hundred people who knew Dora, finally uncovers the truth about
surfing's most seductive and complicated icon.
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
spent ten weeks on the
Los Angeles Times
bestseller list. Rensin has also written extensively for
Rolling
Stone, Esquire, TV Guide, US Weekly
, among others, and been a contributing editor of
Playboy
. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
