Have you ever wanted to quit your job and travel?

How about finding out the following:

•  What miners offer as sacrifice for safety in a 400 year-old Bolivian mine?
•  The equivalent salary and tax rate for finance professionals in Vietnam?
•  The cost of a gram of cocaine sold by the gangs in a Rio favela?
•  The price offered to a security guard to let poachers into a KZN game reserve?

All these and more are answered in the book Quit Travel Grow.

Robert Edwards needed a break and set out on a trip to explore the world, from the Shaolin temple in China to a burlesque show in LA, from Machu Picchu in Peru to Abuna Yemata in Ethiopia, from Riyadh to Sydney, this trip covers 21 countries.

Robert recorded what he saw on the ground; history, cultural and financial facts. It’s a book for readers who like their travel, economics and geopolitics explained through real people, real places, and uncomfortable truths.

Robert worked in M&A advisory in London for 6 years and was a regular member at our events, before that he was an auditor in South Africa. Now he is focussing on his next career step after taking an 18 month ‘mini-retirement’.