Francis R. Denson

Francis R Denson, is a retired Chartered Engineer who graduated in Civil and Structural Engineering from London and Dundee universities. He also qualified as a teacher. In the UK he was engaged in both the practical and academic aspects of building and civil engineering construction but, having spent about half of his working life in African and Asian countries, has had the opportunity to expand his professional activities in several other fields. He has been engaged as college principal, government training advisor, training management systems analyst, computer programmer, translator, instructor in English to foreign university academic staff and as compiler of crossword puzzles for a foreign English language national newspaper. Abroad in Lesotho recalls some of the author's more remarkable and personal experiences during the six or so years of his sojourn in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho where he was engaged as a Technical Cooperation Officer for the British Government. There is no claim to the book's value as a traveller s guide or even a description of Lesotho itself. Nevertheless the author believes that the events he describes owe much to the fact that they occurred in Lesotho and, to that extent, have an intangible link to conditions of living in that delightful country. The author has also published X-WORDS which is a compilation of several of his separately published crossword puzzles in a foreign English language newspaper and McGilvray's Escape and Other Tales both of which are described in detail in his web page www.francisdensonpublications.org.uk