Adventure capitalist : the ultimate investor's road trip
A gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend The best-selling author of Investment Biker takes a fascinating journey through the world's economic situation in a convertible yellow Mercedes. This is the motivating story of entrepreneur Jim Rogers, dubbed ""the Indiana Jones of finance"" by Time magazine, who made his fortune playing the stock market and then embarked on his lifelong dream adventure. Together with his fiancee, Paige Parker, he set out on a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness world
1 online resource (357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, 1 color map, portraits
9781119048824, 9781299074934, 9781588362902, 1119048826, 1299074936, 1588362906
911492440
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; PART ONE: 1999; 1. A Yellow Mercedes; 2. Young Turks; 3. The Coming Catastrophe of Central Asia; 4. The Best Capitalists Are in Communist China; 5. A New Asian Crisis: A Shortage of Girls; 6. Digital Mongolia; 7. The Wedding; PART TWO: 2000; 8. Into Africa; 9. My Broker in Ghana; 10. Whirling Dervishes; 11. Arabian Nights; PART THREE: 2001; 12. Sixty Million of Us Wash Away Our Sins; 13. The Road from Mandalay; 14. Playing Detective in La Paz; 15. My Father's Grave; 16. Home Again; Appendix; Index; EULA
Originally published: New York : Random House, 2003
Includes index