Nature Man

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

Nature Man

Season 7 Episode 6 | 8m 12s | CC

They may look like Hippy from Woodstock or a modern survivalist, but this was the early 1900s. As Civilization and the 20th Century roared forward, two men decided to go back-to-nature and become “Nature Man.”

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