Wilderness Men

Humboldt : Natural Traveller (1x2)

Air date: Jun 07, 2000

Docu-drama charting the discoveries of Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt, who returned from South America in 1804 to be acclaimed as the greatest naturalist in the world, making Napoleon envious of his celebrity, though his reputation was soon to be eclipsed by the radical theories of his protege Charles Darwin. Christopher Eccleston stars.