ADVENTURE CAPITALIST

Drive . . . and grow rich!The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from theultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that wouldultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous carjourney. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers,dubbed “the Indiana Jones of finance” by Time magazine, proves thatthe best way to profit from the global situation is to see theworld mile by mile. “While I have never patronized a prostitute,”he writes, “I know that one can learn more about a country fromspeaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than frommeeting a foreign minister.”Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertibleMercedes, Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their“Millennium Adventure” on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. Theytraveled through 116 countries, including many where most haverarely 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 narrowescapes.They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. Theyate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines,crocodiles, and grasshoppers.Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up—the onlyvantage 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 severalcountries.·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 togigantic amounts of natural gas.Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling,adventurous journey you’re likely to take within the pages of abook—the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors,car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world andunderstanding it as it really is.From the Hardcover edition.