Narra algunos de los viajes más notables en la vida de este joven europeo, cuyo incansable interés por la ciencia lo llevó a conocer lugares a donde inclusive ahora, muy pocos viajeros se animarían a ir. Alexander von Humboldt es considerado el "padre de la Geografía Moderna".----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Alexander von Humboldt, a Scientific Explorer in America" recounts some of many trips taken during the life of this young European man whose untiring interest for science led him to discover places that till this day very few travellers have been. The complications and dangers this entailed certainly didn't stop Humboldt; discover, measure, classify, and study nature was his sole purpose in life. He is considered the "father" of Modern Geography.