Jim Rogers · 2003 · global

Jim Rogers's 2003 sequel, the story of a three-year, 150,000-mile drive around the world in a custom Mercedes, through 116 countries and across every kind of border, with his eye always on where the money will go next. Restless, contrarian and full of road-won conviction about emerging markets. The real journey zigzagged across six continents; mapped here as a representative eastward circumnavigation taking in Africa, Australia and South America.

1. 1
   Reykjavik

   Rogers and his wife begin their drive around the world in Iceland, the custom Mercedes pointed at the whole planet.

2. 2
   London

   Down through Europe to London and the start of the long road east and south.

3. 3
   Istanbul

   To Istanbul, where Europe meets Asia, and the comfortable world gives way to harder country.

4. 4
   Cairo

   South to Cairo and the threshold of Africa, a continent he insists the markets have wrongly written off.

5. 5
   Cape Town

   The length of Africa to Cape Town, thousands of miles of bad roads, borders and bribes.

6. 6
   Perth

   Across the Indian Ocean to Perth and the long empty drive over the Australian outback.

7. 7
   Sydney

   To Sydney on the eastern shore, the Pacific the next great barrier.

8. 8
   Santiago

   Over to Chile and Santiago, into South America by way of the Andes.

9. 9
   Buenos Aires

   Across the pampas to Buenos Aires, the continent crossed.

10. 10
    Reykjavik (return)

    And home at last to Iceland, the world driven round and the ledger closed.