The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. Behind the wheel of a yellow, custom-built Mercedes, Rogers and his fianc6e, began their“Millennium Adventure”on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 coun... (展开全部) The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. Behind the wheel of a yellow, custom-built Mercedes, Rogers and his fianc6e, began their“Millennium Adventure”on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola,Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards, and had many narrow escapes, but they saw the real world from the ground up-the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood- economically,politically, and socially. 作者简介: Born in 1942,JIM ROGERS had his first iob at age five,picking up bottles at baseball games.Winning a scholarship to Yale,Rogers was coxswain on the crew.Upon graduation,he attended Balliol College at Oxford.After a stint in the army,he began work on Wall Street.He Cofounded the quantum Fund.a global investment partnership.During the next ten years,the portfolio gained more than 4,000 percent,while the S&P rose less than 50 percent.Rogers then decided to retire-at age thirty-seven-but he did not remain idie. Continuing to manage his own portfolio,Rogers served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and as moderator of The Dreyfus Round.table on WCBS and The Profit Motive on FNN.At the same time,he laid the groundwork for his lilong dream,an around-the-world motorcycle trip:more than 100,000 miles across six continents.That journey became the subject of Rogers's first book,Investment Biker(1994). While laying plans for his Millennium Adventure 1999-2OO1,he continued as a media ommentator at Worth,CNBC,et a1,and as a sometime professor. He now contributes tO Fox News and others as he and Paige eagerly await their first child.