Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip
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- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Since: 2004-12-07
- Media: Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0812967267
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marisdoggy 9 months ago |
Adventure Capitalist @ivread brought back some memories how hard cross-border traveling but also fun to learn somehow his overseas investing |
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(93people)- Jim Rogers took three years to drive around the world (okay there were some ferries and even a few flights) in a bright yellow, custom-built Mercedes sports car to take the pulse of the global economy at the start of the new millenium.
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>He dismisses whole countries, and even continents in a few sentences, but his observations are interesting and his adventures are entertaining. <
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> - Jim Roger is the Adventure Capitalist. This was the man who, together with George Soros co-founded the highly successful hedge fund, the Quantum Fund, in the early 1970's.
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>The Adventure Capitalist tells us the story of how one man and his wife travelled the world in a car on the ultimate road trip, a 3 year long adventure, and a Guinness World Record. <
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>Read and view the world through the lens of a highly successful international investor, who will regale you with stories of near death experiences in Europe, driving through war zones in Africa, dinner with gangsters in Russia, and how he withdrew his money just weeks before the Argentina currency collapse. Throughout the book, you can also learn something about his unique investment philosophy and strategies as he travelled through countries. - Done right, years on the road would absorb many volumes this size. Some of this work seems as though the entire exercise was an afterthought. Far too little detail for my liking, and not enough personal relationships, although I enjoyed those which were described, such as the author's friendship developed with a Siberian thug who ensured safe passage.
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>This may be that rare situation when the movie would be better. The personality of Rogers may better enlighten when shown in the second person, rather than described in the first. I find myself wanting to read his wife's version, as his own larger-than-life personality surely played a larger role in the events than he could or would describe himself. <
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>Regardless, more people need to read this. It is refreshing to have a capitalist clobber so many prejudices. Many obscure dangers (such as almost being whipped going into Saudi Arabia due to alchohol vile in first aid kit) never considered by most, are explained. An unintentional economic anthropology takes hold. <
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>Best of all, he ends the trip in Vegas. A great read! - This is the first Jim Rogers book I read and I loved it! I have bought this book for friends and clients and recommend it as a first class read.
- This book offers you an amazing learning experience from someone with a greater scope of knowledge and curiosity (could he possibly just sit still?) than just about anyone else I know. After finishing this book--I feel that I've absorbed the collective wisdom of 100's of people living over many centuries. Rogers sense of adventure and curiosity compares with that of Richard Feynman--and one should study his methods of thinking. The book is replete with lessons about history, politics, finance, love, and travel--and their interaction. The scope is comparable with War and Peace, Don Quixote, etc.. This book must assume a place on the pantheon of greatest investment books--including One Up on Wall Street and A Random Walk Down Wall Street. The book must also assume a place on the pantheon of greatest adventure stories.
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