<![CDATA[Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip]]>

false <![CDATA[Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171064146m/86174.jpg 86174 7 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. 2917309 2003 Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip total:139|5:49|4:55|3:31|2:1|1:3| 139 563 208 30 0 0 false false Fri Jul 31 11:17:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 10:11:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 11:17:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Jan 28 18:09:34 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 18:09:50 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Aug 06 08:26:30 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 08:40:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jan 19 05:44:16 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 05:45:31 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Aug 27 13:22:50 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 13:38:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 15 13:18:21 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 13:19:15 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 15 16:39:40 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 16:40:09 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:31:05 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:33:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 01:58:54 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 01:59:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Nov 28 15:44:13 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 15:48:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 30 12:00:05 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 12:05:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Oct 05 19:01:36 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 20 17:36:49 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Oct 28 20:00:03 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 20:05:40 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Mar 09 16:21:14 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 16:32:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 01 18:05:08 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 18:06:07 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Tue Mar 13 16:22:36 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 16:23:41 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Jul 15 11:48:40 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 13:02:04 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 10:07:04 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 10:13:49 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Sep 30 15:17:02 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 15:17:40 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 16 21:30:35 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 21:33:03 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=86174