".Anyone following Rogers' journey cannot fail to be surprised, entertained and even touched by his more anecdotal assessment of globalisation." - EN Magazine, March 2004 ".highly readable.an interesting off-the-beaten-track read." - Publishing News, July 04 ".Adventure Capitalist bounces along from anecdote to anecdote with a sense of fun." - Accounting Technician, September 2003 ".As travellers' tales go, Rogers' stories are told differently." - Personal Money, November 2003 ".a terrific read, a real page-turner." - Daily Mail, 2 June 2003 ".a terrific read.Rogers has some extraordinary experiences and he relates them well." - International Herald Tribune, 14 June 2003 ".millionaire Jim Rogers recalls a millennium on the move. By 1980, at 37 years of age, he had left Wall Street with enough money to satisfy a lifelong appetite for adventure. Jim Rogers entered the investment business in 1968 with $600 dollars in his pocket. 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. 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. This is a gripping tale of travel and adventure along the way they encounter danger, love and farce. 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 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. The best-selling author of "Investment Biker" takes a fascinating journey through the world's economic situation in a convertible yellow Mercedes. This is a gripping tale of adventure, danger and humor, peppered with investment tips from a Wall Street legend.
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