This book is about the author’s amazing trip across six continents and the world economy and society. It discusses who’s sinking and who’s swimming, which countries are on the rise and which are collapsing, where you can make a million and where you could lose one. Every place he stopped on the trip, Rogers talked to businessmen, bankers, investors and regular people. He learned reams of information that you’d never learn from reading the financial pages of any periodical. Delivers a thrilling account of the journey of a lifetime and provides tips that would enable you to pay for a trip just like it.
Зміст
PART I: DUNQUIN TO TOKYO
1. A FLIGHT TO RUSSIA 3
2. NEW YORK 9
3. CROSSING EUROPE 15
4. LINZ 23
5. CENTRAL EUROPE 27
6. ON TO ISTANBUL 3 3
7. OLD TURKISTAN 39
8. CHINA 54
9. XI’AN 66
10. XI’AN TO BEIJING 75
PART II: TOKYO TO DUNQUIN
11. FIRST CLASS IN THE FIRST WORLD 91
12. AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 104
13. ACROSS THE WILD TAYGA 113
14. SIBERIA 116
15. ULAN-UDE, ZIMA, AND KANSK 139
16. NOVOSIBIRSK AND WEST 148
17. MOSCOW 157
18. ON TO IRELAND 167
PART III: DUNQUIN TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
19. AFRICA: THE SAHARA DESERT 179
20. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 195
21. DOWN A LAZY RIVER 206
22. HOME OF THE ALWAYS VICTORIOUS WARRIOR 214
23. ESCAPE 231
24. ZAMBIA AND THE GREAT ZIMBABWE 242
25. BOTSWANA 253
26. SOUTH AFRICA 262
PART IV: ROUNDING THE HORN
27. OVERLAND DOWN UNDER 279
28. THE UTTERMOST END OF THE WORLD 292
29. BUENOS AIRES 301
30. CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND 315
31. ON THE SHINING PATH 329
32. ON DARWIN’S TRAIL 344
33. THE DARIEN GAP 351
34. THE CANAL TO THE RIO GRANDE 356
35. HOME AND BEYOND 372
AFTERWORD 375
APPENDIX I: HOW WE PACKED FOR OUR TWENTY-TWO-MONTH MOTORCYCLE TRIP 383
APPENDIX II: DAILY LOG 38J
INDEX 395
Про автора
Jim Rogers was a Wall Street legend long before he wrote the first edition of Investment Biker (1995). In the 1970s he made ‘more money than I knew existed in the world’ managing the Quantum Fund with George Soros. At age 37 he retired. Since then he has invested his own funds, been a finance professor at Columbia University, and hosted TV progrms on WCBS, FNN and CNBC, among many other things. One of his passions is motorcycling, and in 1990 he set out to travel around the world on his bike, to learn about the world’s developing countries and investment markets by actually going to them.
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