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Description of Investment Biker

Jim Rogers is known for being cut from a different cloth than most of the people on Wall Street. He's a contrarian, and a daring one at that - Rogers was the one who realised the perennially moribund Austrian stock market was a Sleeping Beauty, kissed her, and woke her up.The Austrian economy boomed as a result; besides that, he's a small town Southern boy who's never forgotten where he came from - or where he wants to go.

One of his passions is motorcycling. He'd always dreamed of taking a trip around the world on his bike, and in 1990, with his girlfriend,Tabitha Estabrook, he did just that.They set out not only to travel, but to learn about the world's developing countries and investment markets by actually going to them. It took twenty-two months, but together they drove 65,067 miles on land and travelled thousands more on sea, air, barge, and rail links across six continents, setting a world record for land travel on the way. Investment Biker is the story of this amazing trip.

It's also about the world economy and society - who's sinking and who's swimming, which countries are on the rise and which collapsing, where you can make a million and where you could lose one. Every place he stopped on the trip, Rogers talked to businessmen, bankers, investors, and regular people, and learned reams of information that you'd never learn from reading the financial pages of any periodicals.

All in all, it's quite a ride. Investment Biker not only thrills with its account of the journey of a lifetime, but provides the tips that might allow you to pay for a trip just like it.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780812968712

Pages:

402 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

16018

Publisher:

Random House

Published:

01/01/1970

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Contents of Investment Biker

PART I: Dunquin to Tokyo

A flight to Russia - New York - Crossing Europe - Linz - Central Europe - On to Istanbul - Old Turkistan - China - Xi'an - Xi'an to Beijing

PART II: Tokyo to Dunquin

First class in the first world - At the edge of the world - Across the wild Tayga - Siberia - Ulan-Ude, Zima, and Kansk - Novosibirsk and West - Moscow - On to Ireland

PART III: Dunquin to the Cape of Good Hope

Africa: The Sahara Desert - Sub-Saharan Africa - Down a lazy river - Home of the always victorious warrior - Escape - Zambia and the Great Zimbabwe - Botswana - South Africa

PART IV: Rounding the Horn

Overland down under - The Uttermost end of the world - Buenos Aires - Chile and Easter Island - On the shining path - On Darwin's trail - The Darien Gap - The Canal to the Rio Grande - Home and beyond