This is a story about one Tiki Miki who plays his ukulele differently than the others, and how his different tune takes him somewhere extraordinary.

Volume one gives an indepth discussion of major Hawaiian culture concepts, providing insights into both their ancient and modern significances and volume two traces the ancient Hawaiian social customs practices and beliefs from birth to old age.

For the first time, a native Hawaiian photographer has combined her photographs with traditional Hawaiian references taken from native historians, lending the volume a cultural context drawn from a period before the arrival of foreigners in Hawaii.

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.