Salute to Adventurers is a 1915 novel by John Buchan. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), was a Scottish novelist and a Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan at first entered into a career in law in 1901, but almost immediately moved into politics, becoming private secretary to British colonial administrator Alfred Milner, who was high commissioner for South Africa, Governor of Cape Colony and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Buchan gained an acquaintance with the country that was to feature prominently in his writing. On his return to London, he became a partner in a publishing company while he continued to write books. In 1910, he wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels, set in South Africa. During World War I, he wrote for the War Propaganda Bureau and was a correspondent for The Times in France. In 1915, he published his most famous book The Thirty-Nine Steps, a spy thriller set just before the outbreak of World War I. The following year he published a sequel Greenmantle. Born in Perth, Scotland, Buchan was admitted to the University of Glasgow in 1892 to study classics; during his first year at university he edited the works of Francis Bacon, which were published in 1894.The following year he was awarded a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford; shortly after his arrival he also published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors, which he dedicated to Gilbert Murray, his university tutor. By the time he left the university he had published five books, including Scholar-Gipsies, the first work of non-fiction he wrote. Much of Buchan's non-fiction mirrored his circumstances: his time in South Africa resulted in The African Colony, the First World War led to a series of books about the war in general, and the Scottish and South African forces in particular. He interspersed his non-fiction with further novels, and also wrote ten biographies and four volumes of poetry, as well as numerous articles and stories for magazines and journals.During the war he wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps, the novel which has been adapted for film and television more than any of his other work, (film versions in 1935; 1959; and 1978, as well as a 2008 version for British television)....

ジョン・バカンの「冒険者たちへの敬礼」は、植民地時代のバージニアを舞台に、新天地へ渡る男の不屈の魂を描いた冒険小説の原点です。バカンが描くのは、単なるアクションの羅列ではありません。文明と未開の境界で問われる騎士道精神と、商いと武勇を両立させるリアリズムが同居しており、読者を瞬時に歴史の渦中へと誘う力を持っています。 本作の神髄は、異文化が衝突する最前線で培われる「個の意志」にあります。後のスパイ小説の雛形となる緻密な情勢描写と、厳しい自然の中で磨かれる勇気は、時代を超えて読む者の胸を熱くさせます。著者の実務家としての洞察が虚構に類まれな重厚さを与えており、まさに未知に挑むすべての人に捧げられた至高の人間賛歌といえるでしょう。