- Paperback: 402 pages
- Publisher: Adams Publishing (August 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1558505296
- ISBN-13: 978-1558505292
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #518,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he and George Soros founded the Quantum Fund. This is the fascinating story of his 1990 investing trip around the world by motorcycle, with many tidbits of hard-headed advice for investing in foreign markets.
From Publishers Weekly
Those wanting to make a killing on the Botswana stock exchange should pass up this book. Combining a travel narrative with economic advice, Rogers, who teaches business at Columbia, recounts his 20-month global motorcycle tour with his "tall, leggy and blonde" 23-year-old girlfriend, Tabitha. As the two pass through a region, he sizes up the local economy and recommends investment strategies. Often Rogers's tips seem on the mark, as in Eastern Europe and Asia. Yet for other places, Africa in particular, he appears uninformed. Predicting Zaire's imminent collapse, Rogers declares, "Zaire hasn't had its civil war yet," ignoring the Congo crisis of 1960-1965. Such inaccuracies mar what is otherwise an entertaining and unique world tour. Overall, the intended breezy blend of business and travel instead feels like the zigzagging of a man who rarely leaves his preconceptions behind, no matter what lies in front of him. Author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
An Economic World Trip,
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This review is from: Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (Paperback)
Rogers does such a great job reviewing various countries around the world. He not only explains the macro and micro economic aspects, but also the historic angle as well. The reader gets a tremendous feel for what makes a country economically successful. He also explains how the local culture, either helps or hinders a countries prosperity.The best thing about Mr. Rogers is that he is not a Wall Street Pollyanna.He is not afraid to point out both positive and negative conditions.
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Investment Guidance and Travel Sketch,
By Ta Oz (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (Paperback)
The author, Jim Rogers, is a international investor and bike adventurer. By reading this book, through the author's eyes you can experience a graet world bike adventure. In this tour, you are going to see natives' lives and cultures in those countries, even to understand those and world economics, for as a investor on the bike the author observes those areas in detail from many viewpoints. It's interesting and useful to read this book, by which you can enjoy a world bike adventure and study economics.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bad for a School Assignment,
By michelle (Overland Park, KS) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (Paperback)
The Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Roger would not have been a book I would have chosen to read on my own but, after being assigned to it I would recommend it to those interested in world economy, travel and BMW motorcycles. One follows Roger around the world on his 22-month expedition of six continents and numerous economies and societies. Along with his girlfriend, Tabitha, Roger, a Wall Street legend, entertains with antecedents from his trip, while giving valuable insight of each economy he comes across. Roger is known from revitalizing the "Sleeping Beauty" that is the Austrian stock market. Over the 65,067 miles traveled BMW motorcycles and thousands more by boat, plane and train, Roger experiences first hand global societies, international economies and how they are seceding and failing around the world.
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