Autographed copies!
This edition is hardcover with a dust jacket, and is personalized by Rogers. The title page reads: "See you on the Road, Jim Rogers".
Jim Rogers made the Guinness Book of World Records with the ultimate road trip that is chronicled in these pages. Between 1999 and 2001, Jim and his wife travelled through 116 countries, including many that most people have never ventured, such as East Timor, Myanmar, Congo, and Saudi Arabia. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They ate silkworms, snakes, termites, guinea pings, porcupines, and grasshoppers. They saw the real world from the ground up, and came to understand it politically, socially, and economically.
Rogers’s firm belief is that the only way to understand the world is mile by mile. He realizes that “one can learn more bout a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister.”
From his travels, he developed remarkable opinions about the future, such as: the Euro will fail, India will break up, there are fortunes to be made in Angola, and there is a long-run bull market in commodities. He also firmed up his conviction that states and their affiliated organizations are scams for the real losers of the world.
This book is a wild, opinionated, and impassioned book by one of the most brilliant investor-intellectuals of our time. It is a true classic for anyone who cares about taking a broad view of politics and economics.
Doug French writes: "In Adventure Capitalist, Jim Rogers gives us a view of the world from the ground up. He claims no political ideology, but his message is clearly libertarian. He is constantly amazed at the ingenuity and resourcefulness of human beings, while at the same time being constantly amazed and frustrated at the stupidity of government bureaucrats, dictators and politicians. War, government bureaucracy and central banking make countries and their citizens poorer, while individual achievement, strong work ethic and capitalism create prosperity. Governments and borders are always in flux, but free market principles never change."