Delve Into Dora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki Dora Drafted By C.R. Stecyk III Accessible As Paperbound

me the era that Dora lived was the golden age of surf culture, His exploits have been legendary and sporadically documented, This collection of stories and photographs give some perspective to not only his amazing but troubled life, but to the lifestyle that was to emerge of the "free" surfer one whom shuns contests and industry limelight in favor of traveling the world for adventure and endless search for the perfect wave.
Beautifully edited this reads like coffee table book from Surfers Journal, that inspires me to pick up and flip through just for the sake of getting stoked.
. . Researching Miki Dora and this is a very interesting book on the rebel surfer, Illustrated, but not really a photo book, but more of a memoir told through images but with lots of text as well.
if you surf and fancy the boho life read this book, or read it anyway The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome ofs beach culture.
His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu, His talent earned him trophies which he disdained and the nickname Da Cat, And in the end, when he didn't like the commercial direction of the sport he helped define, he turned his back on the beach, wandered the world, served time in jail, and, finally in, suffering from pancreatic cancer returned to his father's house in Montecito, California to die at age.
A Malibu graffiti that appeared during his years on the road sums up his role in the surfing imagination and still holds true: Dora Lives.
Years in the making and compiled with the cooperation of Dora while he was alive and his family after his death, Dora Lives is the definitive record of the legend.
Transcribed interviews with Dora and texts by former Surfer magazine editor Drew Kampion and writer C, R. Stecyk are combined with nearlyphotos and stills from photographers, filmmakers, and Dora's personal albums,
The story starts out in Budapest, Hungary, where Miklos Dora was born in, follows the child emigre to Hollywood High except when the surf was up, and finds him at the center of the postGidget surf boom of thes.
At that time, Dora stuntdoubled in a few films and competed when he felt like it, but mostly he embraced the hedonist milieu and burnished his antihero legend, culminating in a midwave mooning of the judges at theMalibu Invitational.
Shortly after, he left for points and point breaks abroad in France, Indonesia, Australia and Madagascar until, when he returned to the West Coast to die.
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