Drive . . . and grow rich
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the
ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would
ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car
journey. In AdventureCapitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers,
dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by "Time" magazine, proves
that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the
world mile by mile. "While I have never patronized a prostitute,"
he writes, "I know that one can learn more about a country from
speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from
meeting a foreign minister."
Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertible
Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancee, Paige Parker, began their
"Millennium Adventure" on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They
traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have
rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan,
Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones,
deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow
escapes.
They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. They ate
silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines,
crocodiles, and grasshoppers.
Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up--the only
vantage point from which it can be truly understood--economically,
politically, and socially.
Here are just a few of the author's conclusions:
- The new commodity bull market has started.
- The twenty-first century will belong to China.
- There is a dramatic shortage of women developing in Asia.
- Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating.
- India, like many other large nations, will break into several
countries.
- The Euro is doomed to fail.
- There are fortunes to be made in Angola.
- Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam.
- Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to
gigantic amounts of natural gas.
Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling,
adventurous journey you're likely to take within the pages of a
book--the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors,
car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and
understanding it as it really is.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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