Stories By and About Women in Lesotho, published in 1995, contains tales told orally by non-English speaking Southern Sotho women. Translated by English-speaking friends and relatives, the stories provide insights into women's thoughts and decision-making processes in Lesotho. It's edited by K Limakatso Kendall.Gary N. Van Wyk's African Painted Houses: Basotho Dwellings of Southern Africa is a pretty picture book of the remarkably colourful traditional housing of Lesotho.For a dry but detailed account of the political transition of modern Lesotho, try The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho by James Ferguson.Budding bird watchers shouldn't hit the highlands without Kurt Bonde's Birds of Lesotho: A Guide to Distribution Past and Present under their arm.