Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence
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Contributor: C R StecykPhotographer: Art Brewer
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Unknown); French (Unknown); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2007-09-31
ISBN: 3822853380
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Taschen
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Book Review: divine prince of wreckadence!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
highly recommended in depth look at one of the 1970's most outrageous,larger than life,innovator & hedonist personalities that is sadly missing in todays couch potato,console playing,tv watching,'staying in,is the new going out'superfluous wasters.expand your mind....read a book!!!!
Summary of Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence
The libertine: The wild, brief life of a surfing legend and international playboy The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949-1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival Boogie Nights: The stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, martial arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27. Born Adolph B. Spreckels III, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, Bunker became a famous surfer as a teenager, but after his inheritance came along, he began to slip into a life of pomp and excess where surfing took a back seat to drugs, sex, and wild road trips. So remarkable was his lifestyle that he created an alter-ego who invited photographers and documentarians to trail him, piecing together a tell-all epic of his own rise to fame and fortune. Before the project, known as ?The Player?, could be completed, Spreckels suddenly died.General Books
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