Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road TripRandom House Publishing Group, 13 may 2003 - 368 páginas 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. |
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... going on in the world, to be there, to see it for myself—to dig out the real story—was intensified by the opportunity to capitalize on a historical moment. My plan was to spend three years driving around the globe as the twentieth ...
... going on in the world, to be there, to see it for myself—to dig out the real story—was intensified by the opportunity to capitalize on a historical moment. My plan was to spend three years driving around the globe as the twentieth ...
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... going to travel in just any car. It had to be a sports car. And it had to be a convertible. I wanted to put the top down and have the wind in my face. Of course, I knew nothing about cars. Living in New York City, I had not owned one ...
... going to travel in just any car. It had to be a sports car. And it had to be a convertible. I wanted to put the top down and have the wind in my face. Of course, I knew nothing about cars. Living in New York City, I had not owned one ...
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... anything. I told Steinle that I needed an extra fuel tank and a secret compartment in which to hide money. He said that because the hardtop retracted into the trunk, I was going to need a trailer, as well. He would design one.
... anything. I told Steinle that I needed an extra fuel tank and a secret compartment in which to hide money. He said that because the hardtop retracted into the trunk, I was going to need a trailer, as well. He would design one.
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... going with a manual transmission, explaining that Mercedes-Benz was a far better driver than I and that the company's automatic transmission would get me out of predicaments better than I could extricate myself with a stick shift. “I ...
... going with a manual transmission, explaining that Mercedes-Benz was a far better driver than I and that the company's automatic transmission would get me out of predicaments better than I could extricate myself with a stick shift. “I ...
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... going wrong. Just by the nature of the world. It's going to be very difficult, and our lives will be in danger. There will be deserts and jungles ...” “I'm going,” she said. “There will be wars, there will be epidemics ...” “I'm tough ...
... going wrong. Just by the nature of the world. It's going to be very difficult, and our lives will be in danger. There will be deserts and jungles ...” “I'm going,” she said. “There will be wars, there will be epidemics ...” “I'm tough ...
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