Adventure Capitalist

On January 1, 1999, Jim Rogers and his fiancee Paige Parker set out from Iceland in a custom-built yellow Mercedes convertible on what they called their Millennium Adventure. The three-year drive through 116 countries, among them Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan and East Timor, earned a Guinness record as the longest unbroken car trip. They crossed war zones, deserts and jungles, camped with nomads in the western Sahara, and ate foods from silkworms to crocodiles. Rogers, the investor Time magazine dubbed the Indiana Jones of finance, argues that seeing a country from the ground up reveals its economy and politics. His conclusions include a new commodity bull market, a century belonging to China, and a doomed euro.

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