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.

吉姆·羅傑斯生於1942年，5歲時找到第一份工作，在棒球場拾空瓶子。長大後獲得耶魯大學奬學金，入耶魯大學學習，曾是學校賽艇隊的舵手。從耶魯大學畢業後，又就讀於牛津大學的巴裏奧學院。曾在美國陸軍服務。退役後進入華爾街工作，與另一閤夥人共同成立瞭麵嚮全球的量子基金。此後的10年裏，該基金盈利超過4000%，而同時期的標準普爾指數隻上漲瞭不足50%。羅傑斯37歲那年決定退休，可人並沒有閑著。

除瞭繼續經營自己的股本外，羅傑斯兼任哥倫比亞大學商學院的教授，講授金融課程。此外，他還是哥倫比亞廣播公司辦的《德賴弗斯圓桌訪談》節目和FNN主辦的《追求利潤》節目的主持人。

羅傑斯為自己的韆禧年之旅（1999-20...

作者作品:

· 《風險投資傢環球遊記》。