Jim Rogers: Adventure Capitalist [PDF]

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 record for the longest continuous car journey. Their
trip winds its way through 116 countries – through blizzards,
deserts, epidemics and war zones – to discover failing economies
and the new boom countries not from dry and potentially flawed
statistics, but by experiencing life itself. This is a gripping
tale of travel and adventure; along the way they encounter danger,
love and farce. It is also a highly readable account of world
economies: you won’t find a more enjoyable way to be introduced to
the investment potential of Bolivia, or the cultural changes afoot
in North Korea. Finally it is also an inward journey in which
Rogers moves from the restless traveler to husband and father,
hoping one day to introduce his daughter to his own passion for
travel.

JIM ROGERS entered the investment business in 1968 with $600
dollars in his pocket. By 1980, at 37 years of age, he had left
Wall Street with enough money to satisfy a lifelong appetite for
adventure.