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.

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.

PART I: DUNQUIN TO TOKYO1. A FLIGHT TO RUSSIA 32. NEW YORK 93. CROSSING EUROPE 154. LINZ 235. CENTRAL EUROPE 276. ON TO ISTANBUL 3 37. OLD TURKISTAN 398. CHINA 549. XI'AN 6610. XI'AN TO BEIJING 75PART II: TOKYO TO DUNQUIN11. FIRST CLASS IN THE FIRST WORLD 9112. AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD 10413. ACROSS THE WILD TAYGA 11314. SIBERIA 11615. ULAN-UDE, ZIMA, AND KANSK 13916. NOVOSIBIRSK AND WEST 14817. MOSCOW 15718. ON TO IRELAND 167PART III: DUNQUIN TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE19. AFRICA: THE SAHARA DESERT 17920. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 19521. DOWN A LAZY RIVER 20622. HOME OF THE ALWAYS VICTORIOUS WARRIOR 21423. ESCAPE 23124. ZAMBIA AND THE GREAT ZIMBABWE 24225. BOTSWANA 25326. SOUTH AFRICA 262PART IV: ROUNDING THE HORN27. OVERLAND DOWN UNDER 27928. THE UTTERMOST END OF THE WORLD 29229. BUENOS AIRES 30130. CHILE AND EASTER ISLAND 31531. ON THE SHINING PATH 32932. ON DARWIN'S TRAIL 34433. THE DARIEN GAP 35134. THE CANAL TO THE RIO GRANDE 35635. HOME AND BEYOND 372AFTERWORD 375APPENDIX I: HOW WE PACKED FOR OUR TWENTY-TWO-MONTH MOTORCYCLE TRIP 383APPENDIX II: DAILY LOG 38JINDEX 395