Tropic Fever - Foray At The Orinoco - Alexander von Humboldt's Adventures
In 1799 young Berlin aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks for a journey into the complete unknown. Accompanied by his French friend and soul mate Aimé Bonpland he travels the almost completely unexplored rain-forest regions of South America. The objective of Humboldt's mission: To prove there is a hidden inter-connection between the two big river systems of the sub-continet, between the Amazon and the Orinoco.