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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
part one: 1999
1. A Yellow Mercedes.
2. Young Turks.
3. The Coming Catastrophe of Central Asia.
4. The Best Capitalists Are in Communist China.
5. A New Asian Crisis: A Shortage of Girls.
6. Digital Mongolia.
7. The Wedding.
part two: 2000
8. Into Africa.
9. My Broker in Ghana.
10. Whirling Dervishes.
11. Arabian Nights. part three: 2001
12. Sixty Million of Us Wash Away Our Sins.
13. The Road from Mandalay.
14. Playing Detective in La Paz.
15. My Father’s Grave.
16. Home Again.
Appendix.
Index.
Sobre o autor
Born in 1942, Jim Rogers had his first job at age five,
picking up bottles at baseball games. Winning a scholarship to
Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew. Upon graduation, he attended
Balliol College at Oxford. After a stint in the army, he began work
on Wall Street. He cofounded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment
partnership. During the next ten years, the portfolio gained more
than 4, 000 percent, while the S&P rose less than 50 percent.
Rogers then decided to retire – at age thirty-seven – but he did
not remain idle.
Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers served as a
professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of
Business and as moderator of The Dreyfus Roundtable on WCBS and The
Profit Motive on FNN. At the same time, he laid the groundwork for
his lifelong dream, an around-the-world motorcycle trip: more than
100, 000 miles across six continents. That journey became the
subject of Rogers’s first book, Investment Biker
(1994), available from John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
While laying plans for his Millennium Adventure 1999-2001,
he continued as a media commentator at Worth, CNBC, et al., and as
a sometime professor.
He now contributes to Fox News and others as he and Paige
eagerly await their first child.
He can be reached at href=’http://www.jimrogers.com/’>www.jimrogers.com
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