Bunker Spreckels. Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, October 17, 2007

Surf world legends Art Brewer and Craig Stecyck hit it outta the park with this beautiful book! Great job, guys. Missing you and the good times we had at the mag in the 1980s.

...this is a must. My copy had a section in it that was misprinted in German but since the book is so hard to find, it isn't going to ruin my enjoyment. It is mainly a photo diary anyway so a few German captions-oh well. Check out the Bunker 77 movie if you are into ABS and the early 70s surf scene.

Love it!!

great book

Beautiful book, and what an interesting character!

Bunker was one of a kind. Unforgetable. His story is a lot like Dora's. California is a haven for the person of difference and Bunker was different. A good read.

What a Story

Bunker reminds me of a promising kid I surfed with who, with more opportunities available than most of us had, just could not get a handle on life, abused it and died young. Shooting stars are brilliant for just about one second.

All bow at the alter of the high lord of gonzo surfing. This tome gives you the chance to check out Bunker's babes, duds, guns and tubes. It's an ode to decadence, and how many of us might chose to exit this life if we only had six weeks left to live. That wasn't the case for Bunker, although he clearly didn't see things in such black and white terms. Radical.

Art Brewer and writer/photojournalist C. R. Stecyk III make this book, which traces the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Bunker Spreckels. Widely considered one of the world’s most gifted surfing photographers, Brewer was a close friend of Spreckels’s and his personal photographer throughout the last decade of his life, traveling with him from Hawaii to Los Angeles to South Africa. His images of Spreckels both on the waves and on land chronicle Spreckels’s metamorphosis from hippie surfer to international playboy, while Stecyk’s extensive taped interview with Spreckels, completed just three months before his death, provides a rare first-person perspective on all of the decadent craziness that was his life.

Nothing to dislike, Our son loved the book as he is a surfer.