As a schoolboy, Dave Varty was passionate about two things: playing cricket and the family's bushveld farm, Sparta, on the edge of the Kruger National Park. Set up as a hunting camp when their grandfather bought the land in 1926, the four small mud rondavels became the Varty brothers' holiday home and the base camp for a lifetime of learning and adventure. When his father died Dave was fifteen and the family was left in a precarious financial position...