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Adventure Capitalist

The Ultimate Road Trip

by Jim Rogers
Paul Boehmer
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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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  • Release date

    May 27, 2006

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739345375
      • File size: 351075 KB
      • Duration: 12:11:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This tale of a three-year trip around the world by the author, his wife, and a support crew traveling in two custom-built Mercedes reads like a World Book encyclopedia in random order. The compass-driven plot would be good for stop-and-go driving, but hearing that python tastes like chicken, that Condoleezza Rice specialized in Russian studies, and that the author wishes he had attended his father's funeral produces a surprising literary chimera. Paul Boehmer's soft, animated voice enlivens the expedition and its many detours into economic theory by exploiting the regional accents given to English by the Indians, Slavs, and Africans who merit speaking parts. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Jim Rogers and his fiancée (now wife), Paige Parker, drove around the world in a BMW from January 1999 through December 2001. They drove through 116 countries so that Rogers, an investment analyst, could understand their economies and investment possibilities, particularly in emerging and third-world countries. Slowly and succinctly, Rogers reads about his exciting journey with a subtle Mississippi accent, sometimes softly slurring words, other times enunciating them with precision. His firsthand knowledge of places and people adds to the smoothness of his narration. Yet he always seems to be reading his story, maintaining a distance from its excitement and adventure. Since the majority of his trip was before September 11, 2001, and the book was written in 2003, he includes follow-up discussion on how that event impacted his investment decisions. A great adventure, no matter how you look at it. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 1, 2003
      Financier Rogers retired at 37 and motorcycled around the world, turning the trip into the book Investment Biker, a hybrid of business advice and travelogue. That journey, however, failed to squelch his wanderlust. Instead of enjoying his sedate life teaching finance, Rogers decided to take his fiancee and a souped-up Mercedes on a frighteningly intense road trip: three years, 116 countries and 152,000 miles. Like the car that plowed through snow, mud, sand and highways on every continent, Rogers's memoir of the journey is its own breed. Although Rogers writes, far too briefly, of life-changing events like getting married and hearing of his father's death, the book has an uncommon level of detachment. Also, even though Rogers shares investment advice and observations about the planet's political economies, his thoughts are too general to serve as business lessons. The result is an adventure tale without heart and a finance book without teeth. Rogers tries to make up for this by describing experiences like eating fried silkworms and watching prostitutes caught in the world's sex trade. Mainly, though, he chronicles prosaic details, like taking car ferries and talking to border guards, and then riffs on politics, money, immigration and culture.

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