Jim Rogers 
Investment Biker 
Around the World with Jim Rogers

This book is about the author’s amazing trip across six continents and the world economy and society. It discusses who’s sinking and who’s swimming, which countries are on the rise and which are 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. He learned reams of information that you’d never learn from reading the financial pages of any periodical. Delivers a thrilling account of the journey of a lifetime and provides tips that would enable you to pay for a trip just like it.

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PART I: DUNQUIN TO TOKYO

1. A FLIGHT TO RUSSIA 3

2. NEW YORK 9

3. CROSSING EUROPE 15

4. LINZ 23

5. CENTRAL EUROPE 27

6. ON TO ISTANBUL 3 3

7. OLD TURKISTAN 39

8. CHINA 54

9. XI’AN 66

10. XI’AN TO BEIJING 75

PART II: TOKYO TO DUNQUIN

11. FIRST CLASS IN THE FIRST WORLD 91

12. AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 104

13. ACROSS THE WILD TAYGA 113

14. SIBERIA 116

15. ULAN-UDE, ZIMA, AND KANSK 139

16. NOVOSIBIRSK AND WEST 148

17. MOSCOW 157

18. ON TO IRELAND 167

PART III: DUNQUIN TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

19. AFRICA: THE SAHARA DESERT 179

20. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 195

21. DOWN A LAZY RIVER 206

22. HOME OF THE ALWAYS VICTORIOUS WARRIOR 214

23. ESCAPE 231

24. ZAMBIA AND THE GREAT ZIMBABWE 242

25. BOTSWANA 253

26. SOUTH AFRICA 262

PART IV: ROUNDING THE HORN

27. OVERLAND DOWN UNDER 279

28. THE UTTERMOST END OF THE WORLD 292

29. BUENOS AIRES 301

30. CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND 315

31. ON THE SHINING PATH 329

32. ON DARWIN’S TRAIL 344

33. THE DARIEN GAP 351

34. THE CANAL TO THE RIO GRANDE 356

35. HOME AND BEYOND 372

AFTERWORD 375

APPENDIX I: HOW WE PACKED FOR OUR TWENTY-TWO-MONTH MOTORCYCLE TRIP 383

APPENDIX II: DAILY LOG 38J

INDEX 395

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Jim Rogers was a Wall Street legend long before he wrote the first edition of Investment Biker (1995). In the 1970s he made ‘more money than I knew existed in the world’ managing the Quantum Fund with George Soros. At age 37 he retired. Since then he has invested his own funds, been a finance professor at Columbia University, and hosted TV progrms on WCBS, FNN and CNBC, among many other things. One of his passions is motorcycling, and in 1990 he set out to travel around the world on his bike, to learn about the world’s developing countries and investment markets by actually going to them.