JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT BIOGRAPHY
JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
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).