An excellent volume in Ted Proud’s series of postal history handbooks. Illustrated with hundreds of postmark illustrations, photographs, and maps. Contents include: General Historical Introduction; Postal History; Mail from East Africa prior to 1890; The Use of German Stamp Period 1890-93; The First Overprinted Stamp Period 1893-96; The Second Overprinted Stamp Period 1896-1900; The First Definitive Stamp Period 1901-1905; German Mailboats at Zanzibar; Post Offices and Postmarks; The War in East Africa.