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  • Altitude Sickness: The Happy Valley Set

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    Altitude Sickness: The Happy Valley Set

    Originally featured in Issue 40 of The Rake, Nick Scott delves into the controversial lives (and deaths) of the Happy Valley set — a group of white, western expatriates who, between the 1920s and forties, turned a slice of Kenyan highlands into a hotbed of colonial debauchery.

  • The Bootleg Brethren: Prohibition's Heroes

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    The Bootleg Brethren: Prohibition's Heroes

    How the lesser-known ne’er-do-wells of The Prohibition wove, with their antics, some of the richest folklore in American history.

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