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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... where others did not, exploiting untapped markets around the globe, and it was a significant factor in my success. But what I wanted out of Wall Street, and ultimately out. ENTERED THE INVESTMENT BUSINESS in 1968 with six hundred.
... where others did not, exploiting untapped markets around the globe, and it was a significant factor in my success. But what I wanted out of Wall Street, and ultimately out. ENTERED THE INVESTMENT BUSINESS in 1968 with six hundred.
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... hundred kilometers from Reykjavík to Egilsstadir to Akureyri, then back around to Reykjavík—a rough, jagged, glorious country of glaciers, geysers, fjords, ancient lava flows, waterfalls, and eruptions of steam. Our first night on the ...
... hundred kilometers from Reykjavík to Egilsstadir to Akureyri, then back around to Reykjavík—a rough, jagged, glorious country of glaciers, geysers, fjords, ancient lava flows, waterfalls, and eruptions of steam. Our first night on the ...
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... hundreds of years, and it is still mandatory for all schoolchildren there to study Danish as a second language. Ponder that for a minute. Denmark is a nation of five million people, so there are maybe seven million people on earth who ...
... hundreds of years, and it is still mandatory for all schoolchildren there to study Danish as a second language. Ponder that for a minute. Denmark is a nation of five million people, so there are maybe seven million people on earth who ...
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... hundred years there may be only about thirty languages left in the world—and Gaelic and Danish will probably not be among the survivors. It may be horrible that Gaelic is disappearing, but the world has already lost hundreds of ...
... hundred years there may be only about thirty languages left in the world—and Gaelic and Danish will probably not be among the survivors. It may be horrible that Gaelic is disappearing, but the world has already lost hundreds of ...
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... hundred years ago, Ethiopia did the same thing. Poor Copernicus was condemned for claiming that the earth was not the center of the universe. The Catholic Church made him recant. You can take a similar approach today—tell an Icelandic ...
... hundred years ago, Ethiopia did the same thing. Poor Copernicus was condemned for claiming that the earth was not the center of the universe. The Catholic Church made him recant. You can take a similar approach today—tell an Icelandic ...
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