A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grant, James Augustus
Grant, James Augustus (1827-1892).—Traveller, was an officer in the army, and was sent by the Royal Geographical Society along with Captain John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), to search for the equatorial lakes of Africa. Grant wrote A Walk across Africa, The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition, and Khartoum as I saw it in 1863. Speke wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863), and What led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1864).