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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip (平装)
by Jim Rogers
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Stock investment, Wall Street, Biography |
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
Financier Rogers retired at 37 and motorcycled around the world, turning the trip into the book Investment Biker, a hybrid of business advice and travelogue. That journey, however, failed to squelch his wanderlust. Instead of enjoying his sedate life teaching finance, Rogers decided to take his fiancée and a souped-up Mercedes on a frighteningly intense road trip: three years, 116 countries and 152,000 miles. Like the car that plowed through snow, mud, sand and highways on every continent, Rogers's memoir of the journey is its own breed. Although Rogers writes, far too briefly, of life-changing events like getting married and hearing of his father's death, the book has an uncommon level of detachment. Also, even though Rogers shares investment advice and observations about the planet's political economies, his thoughts are too general to serve as business lessons. The result is an adventure tale without heart and a finance book without teeth. Rogers tries to make up for this by describing experiences like eating fried silkworms and watching prostitutes caught in the world's sex trade. Mainly, though, he chronicles prosaic details, like taking car ferries and talking to border guards, and then riffs on politics, money, immigration and culture.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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AudioFile (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
Jim Rogers and his fiancée (now wife), Paige Parker, drovearound the world in a BMW from January 1999 through December2001. They drove through 116 countries so that Rogers, an investmentanalyst, could understand their economies and investmentpossibilities, particularly in emerging and third-worldcountries. Slowly and succinctly, Rogers reads about his excitingjourney with a subtle Mississippi accent, sometimes softly slurringwords, other times enunciating them with precision. His firsthandknowledge of places and people adds to the smoothness of hisnarration. Yet he always seems to be reading his story, maintaining adistance from its excitement and adventure. Since the majority of histrip was before September 11, 2001, and the book was written in 2003,he includes follow-up discussion on how that event impacted hisinvestment decisions. A great adventure, no matter how you look at it.M.B.K. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine -This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Booklist (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
Rogers, a Wall Street success story who has been called "The Indiana Jones of Finance," once circled the planet on a motorcycle, which landed him in The Guinness Book of World Records and resulted in his first book, Investment Biker (1994). In 1999 he set out on another world-record drive around the world in a custom-built yellow Mercedes convertible with his fiancee, Paige Parker. Starting out in Iceland, the trip took three years and encompassed 116 countries, many of which are rarely visited, in a continuous swath across Europe, the former Soviet Republic, China, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. No one had ever driven overland following these routes, a total of 152,000 miles, another Guinness world record. Rogers' insightful commentary on the political and historical topography of these diverse countries cuts through stereotypes to give us a glimpse of the world the way it really is, for better or worse. This is a gutsy travelogue adventure from a guy who shoots straight from the hip, and it really hits the mark. David Siegfried
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Jim Rogers - the Indiana Jones of finance (Time magazine), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
My success in the market has been predicated on viewing the world from a different perspective. |
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Kevin Hogan (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
Wow!
Maybe I'm not as smart as the reviewer who preceded me.
I picked up A.C. on the way to Australia. I read it at light speed. To say this book is an eye opener is an understatement. I travel a lot...but not this much! ...no one does!
I learned a great deal following the Jim, Paige, videographer and car around the world. I confess there is much of their journey I would never have had the guts to undertake and thus was impressed by some of their choices of travel.
Here's some of what you are going to pick up:
1) You're going to find out what countries to put a few shekels into and which one's not to. (There are a lot more to NOT.)
2) You're going to get an excellent idea of where you want to visit on your next non-5-star trip out of the country.
3) You're going to find out that Vancouver B.C. is overall one of the finest cities in the world. (I can't think of a better one myself.)
4) Some darn good arguments for unrestricted free trade and open borders.
5) Solid challenges to your way of looking at the political messes of virtually every nation on the planet and a few ideas on what could make things better.
6) Lots of ways to save your hard earned money.
7) The fact that there are precious few powerhouse opportunities right now.
Of some interest, Jim notes he was told you can't buy a house in Australia if you don't live there. That's what I was told by some cab drivers, realtors and university prof's. Others told me the exact opposite and a few noted that you can't buy but you can build. Go figure. This is truly a bizarre phenomenon. Whatever the deal is, don't cut the check until you know the answer.
This book was a lot of fun. Thoroughly enjoyable and a lesson in looking at the world and the USA that sometimes is a bit stern.
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W. A. Wood (MSL quote), USA
<2008-02-19 00:00>
Mr. Rogers is dead-on right about many things, and there are things that he is wrong about. Being close to the ground before investing internationally is amazingly brave and smart. His claim that you can learn more about a country in 10 minutes speaking to a prositute than you can in 1 hour speaking to the country's head of state is a bold and funny claim, but I am certain there is truth to it.
He picks investments based on a number of unorthodox factors. Reading some of these scathing reviews from fellow Amazon readers, I can't help but wonder what the reviewers' investment returns look like. Everyone's a critic, but who can back up what he/she says? I know Jim Rogers can, for if there's one thing you can't argue against Jim Rogers, it is the success of his investments.
The book is very interesting, because even though it is autobiographical, it has the element of fiction: did that really happen, you're left wondering as he almost drove off a mountain in an Icelandic Blizzard before the trip even started. Did he really drive through the Sahara Desert behind a military convoy in a bright yellow Mercedes?? I could ask a million similar rhetorical questions, but if you're here reading my review, I would highly recommend reading the book instead. |
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