IRK LUETHI and I were in the Khomas Hochland of South West Africa, on the game ranch owned by the Kieckebusch family and run by professional hunter Heiner Kiekebusch, a master gunsmith trained in Germany. Beneath a star-studded sky, we were enjoying a fire with Heiner’s retired parents, Herr and Vrau Kiekebusch, who were enthralling me with tales of farming in that wild country long ago. Herr Kiekebusch’s parents had farmed in the remote northwest (now Damaraland) during German Colonial times. Elephants, rhinos and lions roamed the farm
