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Overview
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 Adventure Capitalist, 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 fiancée, 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.
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 Adventure Capitalist, 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 fiancée, 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.
Reviews (9)
Encore
Written by Daniel Taibi on March 7th, 2008
- Book Rating: 5/5
This is an amazingly good book! It makes you realize how little you know about what's outside of the US, what influences currency and the economy world-wide, and who really benefits from economic measures! Reveals Al Greenspan is incompetent! I would definitely recommend this book to give you an outside vantage on the US and our economy ... good also if you're thinking of investing abroad!
adventure Capitalist
Written by Anonymous from Rochester, MN on February 26th, 2007
- Book Rating: 5/5
Enjoyed it. Interesting to hear about different places in the world that you normally doing hear anything about. I highly recommend it.
If only Jim Rogers would read the unabridged version as well....
Written by Anonymous on April 27th, 2006
- Book Rating: 5/5
I'm a huge Jim Rogers fan. Loved Investment Biker, and Adventure Capitalist continues the saga. Read by the author, an added bonus.
Adventure Capitalist
Written by Anonymous from Dallas, TX on March 28th, 2006
- Book Rating: 5/5
This is a fascinating book. From details about traveling through the toughest countries to investing in foreign, unknown stocks, this book reveals interesting details around every turn. As a businessman who loves to travel, this book is a great opportunity to live and learn vicariously.
Adenture Capitalist
Written by DK from Minneapolis, MN on September 13th, 2005
- Book Rating: 5/5
Entertaining and insightful. Highly recommended. Provides a rare and unique perspective on current and historical cultural, political and economic conditions in countries few people will ever visit. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding international investing or travel. Provides interesting perspective on how political and economic policies can drastically impact the development of fundamental infrastructures.
good book
Written by Anonymous on August 9th, 2005
- Book Rating: 3/5
it was a good book, I wished if the author talked more about the countries and economies more,
What an adventure!
Written by Anonymous from Brandon, MS on August 4th, 2005
- Book Rating: 4/5
As I have always wanted to travel the globe, this audiobook let me live vicariously through Rogers. I can not think of anything that would be more exciting. The financial stuff was detailed but elementary enough for me (a money idiot) to get. He has some very strong views, not all that I agree with but interesting to listen to. Any love that can withstand a 3 year road trip is meant to be. Best of luck Jim and Paige, and I hope for many more adventures!!!
Ok, not great
Written by Anonymous on September 21st, 2004
- Book Rating: 3/5
I thought this would either be a travelogue or a book on investing in other countries. It was kind of half and half, and not especially enlightening on either subject, although there were some excellent bits on both subjects.
Adventure Capitalist
Written by Anonymous on September 20th, 2004
- Book Rating: 4/5
This a great book and fun to read by anyone who has traveled. Unique perspective because this is not only a travel adventure book, but a look at world markets. Informative and insightful.