Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip 
Product Description: - 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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Ratings: - Great lessons from a true explorer--the Richard Feynman of finance. This book offers you an amazing learning experience from someone with a greater scope of knowledge and curiosity (could he possibly just sit still?) than just about anyone else I know. After finishing this book--I feel that I ve absorbed the collective wisdom of 100 s of people living over many centuries. Rogers sense of adventure and curiosity compares with that of Richard Feynman--and one should study his methods of thinking. The book is replete with lessons about history, politics, finance, love, and travel--and their interaction. The scope is comparable with War and Peace, Don Quixote, etc.. This book must assume a place on the pantheon of greatest investment books--including One Up on Wall Street and A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The book must also assume a place on the pantheon of greatest adventure stories.
- Great book if you love travel and/or business. This is probably the best book I ve read this year so far. It s a great true story with solid business tips and great travel stories. I highly recommend it.
- A history lesson in addition to a primer on international investing. Mr. Rogers is dead-on right about many things, and there are things that he is wrong about. Being close to the ground before investing internationally is amazingly brave and smart. His claim that you can learn more about a country in 10 minutes speaking to a prositute than you can in 1 hour speaking to the country s head of state is a bold and funny claim, but I am certain there is truth to it.
He picks investments based on a number of unorthodox factors. Reading some of these scathing reviews from fellow Amazon readers, I can t help but wonder what the reviewers investment returns look like. Everyone s a critic, but who can back up what he/she says? I know Jim Rogers can, for if there s one thing you can t argue against Jim Rogers, it is the success of his investments.
The book is very interesting, because even though it is autobiographical, it has the element of fiction: did that really happen, you re left wondering as he almost drove off a mountain in an Icelandic Blizzard before the trip even started. Did he really drive through the Sahara Desert behind a military convoy in a bright yellow Mercedes?? I could ask a million similar rhetorical questions, but if you re here reading my review, I would highly recommend reading the book instead. - An entertaining quick read. I read the book to hear of tales and experiences of traveling the world via automobile and that is what it delivered. This is not an investing book. Very fast read.
- The Ultimate Road Trip, indeed. I am quite impressed by this book and Jim Rogers trip. We all would like to do a tour of the world, but very few of us can spare the time or the money. Being a retired billionaire does help in that respect and if only because it gives the necessary funding to construct your own vehicle and do as you please. Jim Rogers does precisely that. In a way, we all ought to be jealous or make a killing money-wise and do it ourselves.
I loved the description of his trip from Ireland to Tokyo and back to Ireland as well as his trip down and up through Africa. Jim Rogers being an investor he was bound to make all sorts of observations on the economies he traveled through. Some of these I found spot-on. I also agreed with his observation on foreign aid projects given that I have also seen them in action.
The one disappointment for me were his travels from India to New Zealand and his trip through the American continent and largely because he describes it rather briefly. I think they would have deserved at least as much attention as Part One and Part Two of his trip.
But apart from that, this is excellent stuff.
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