This book documents variously inspiring, heart-warming, humorous and cautionary stories of numerous amazing individuals who left their own countries either willingly or by force. Some of the immigrants included in this volume worked fantastically hard to immerse themselves into new cultures and languages, and as a result achieved resounding success in making their fortunes in the new countries they chose to call home. Others, however, climbed to giddy heights only to fall spectacularly from grace either through misfortune or miscalculation. From an enterprising American who set up a silk shop in Thailand to a Kurdish refugee who made his fortune as an investment banker in the United States; from a brilliant Indian student who rose to the highest ranks of Britain's political elite to an Argentinian economist whose ineptitude cost several banks a fortune, each of these immigrants teaches us something about what it means to start a new life in a foreign land.