Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139279 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03-28
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Wealth does strange things to people. It can either control them or set them free. Jim Rogers falls into the latter camp. Like an angst-free Marlon Brando, this Wild One quit his Quantum fund job alongside George Soros at the age of 37, saddled up a powerful BMW and revved his way into a personal dream.

In 1990, Rogers set out with his girlfriend on a marathon global tour, chasing the summer and the prevailing economic climate across six continents and reporting home in his easily adopted role of Investment Biker. The result, even after all these years, is a gloriously entertaining flight of reality. Part travelogue, part investment guide, Rogers himself is the real centrepiece, at times railing (if that's the right word) against local custom/ideology/policy, on other occasions providing eye-opening investment tips on where the sensible money should be going. Shunning the usual tourist routes, Rogers' odyssey takes him through landscapes and economies unique in culture and currency where his natural charisma shines through in easy-going commentary. It's not all image though; Rogers' predictions on emerging markets have proved by and large to be unerringly accurate.

Whatever you want from a book, Investment Biker can probably supply it: thrills, spills, rampaging elephants and economic theory. Dig out those leathers and enjoy the ride. --Jake Bond

Synopsis
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.

From the Back Cover
"Investment Biker is an unlikely concoction of classic travelogue and investment-cum-economics manual. Rampaging elephants in Zimbabwe come within inches of flattening the hero biker and his girl; the poor countries border guards could have been penned by Graham Greene... One of the best books we've seen this year - read it." Investors Chronicle

"In 1990 [Jim Rogers] set out on a 65,000-mile motorcycle journey, through six continents, with not much more than his girlfriend, a short-wave radio and two bow ties, to explore some emerging markets... The resulting adventure is the subject of this wonderful book, which is sure to achieve the cult success of , say, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It will tell you not only where to make a million and where to lose one, but how to dig a BMW motorbike out of the Sahara sand." Good Book Guide

"The investment business has few genuine heroes, but one with a good claim to belong to any Hall of Fame that exists is a charming but unorthodox American called Jim Rogers." The Independent

Customer Reviews

Stockmarket biker
This is the first book I have not finished in quite a while.

If you are interested in bikes and the money markets you will enjoy this book.

As a pure travel/bike book it is grim. Jim Rogers takes most of the book to talk about money markets and investment opportunities as he travels the world. The biking comes across as incidental.

Sorry Jim but its not for me.

very personal guide though nothing deep
Jim Rogers is not just a rich investor but also a good story teller. This is a fun book to read, though nothing is deep or challenging. Still, useful as a personal guide to understand changing global business, politics and finance, I would say this: it is not enough to understand the deeper issues on this fast-changing world. Maybe 2 other books should help: 1. Alchemy of finance, by George Soros; 2. China and the new world order, by George Zhibin Gu. Both books offer deeper insights on global finance and business.

I didn't want the book to finish ...
An excellent read. I found it a little difficult to get into for the first few pages but after that I found myself almost rationing myself to a single chapter or two at a time so as to prolong the enjoyment and ensure I got full value from Jim's observations.

JR actually published the book in 1994 but the economic truths he tells are every bit as relevant today. He also makes some startling predictions too, several of which in the intervening period, are already taking shape __ I won't spoil JR's thunder by revealing them here but I can assure you that you will never think of national borders in the same away again.

I immediately ordered JR's follow-up volume on the basis on Investment Biker. Enjoy!