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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip
by Jim Rogers
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Great lessons from a true explorer--the Richard Feynman of finance 
This book offers you an amazing learning experience from someone with a greater scope of knowledge and curiosity (could he possibly just sit still?) than just about anyone else I know. After finishing this book--I feel that I've absorbed the collective wisdom of 100's of people living over many centuries. Rogers sense of adventure and curiosity compares with that of Richard Feynman--and one should study his methods of thinking. The book is replete with lessons about history, politics, finance, love, and... more info
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Great book if you love travel and/or business
This is probably the best book I've read this year so far. It's a great true story with solid business tips and great travel stories. I highly recommend it.
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A history lesson in addition to a primer on international investing
Mr. Rogers is dead-on right about many things, and there are things that he is wrong about. Being close to the ground before investing internationally is amazingly brave and smart. His claim that you can learn more about a country in 10 minutes speaking to a prositute than you can in 1 hour speaking to the country's head of state is a bold and funny claim, but I am certain there is truth to it.
He picks investments based on a number of unorthodox factors. Reading some of these scathing reviews from... more info
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An entertaining quick read
I read the book to hear of tales and experiences of traveling the world via automobile and that is what it delivered. This is not an investing book. Very fast read.
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