Archibald Ross Colquhoun

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Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1848-1914) was an English traveler. He became associated with the Indian Public Works Department in 1871. After acting as secretary of the British Commission to Siam, he in 1881-82 and 1883-84 made extensive tours of exploration in order to found a route for a railway between India and China. He became Administrator of Mashonaland in 1890, and in 1895 visited Central America as a representative of the Panama and Nicaragua canal projects. His travels are related in various books he wrote, which include:

  • Across Chrysé (two volumes, 1883)
  • The Opening of China (1884)
  • English Policy in the Far East (1885)
  • The Key of the Pacific (1895)
  • China in Transformation (1895)
  • Overland to China (1901)
  • Greater America {1904)
  • Mastery of the Pacific (1904)
  • The Africander Land (1906)
  • The Whirlpool of Europe; Austria-Hungary and the Hapsburgs (with Mrs. Colquhoun, 1907)
  • From Dan to Beersheba — Reminiscences of Public Service (1908)
  • Germany and Sea Power (1909)
  • China in Reformation (1912)