FREE THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA FACSIMILE, BOOK 5) PDF C. S. Lewis,Pauline Baynes | 224 pages | 30 Sep 2010 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007360819 | English | London, United Kingdom What are the Christian themes in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader? | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [a] is a high fantasy novel for children by C. Lewispublished by Geoffrey Bles in It was the third published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia — and Lewis had finished writing it inbefore the first book was out. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions. Lewis dedicated the book to Geoffrey Corbett. He is the foster-son of Owen BarfieldThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile friend, teacher, adviser and trustee of Lewis. Macmillan US published an American edition within the calendar year [1] [3] with substantial revisions that were retained in the US until The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has been adapted and filmed as four episodes of a BBC television series in Book 5) as a feature film in The two youngest Pevensie children, Lucy and Edmundare staying with their odious cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older brother, Peteris studying for an exam with Professor Kirkeand their older sister, Susanis travelling through America with their parents. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace are drawn into the Narnian world through a picture of a ship at sea. The painting, hanging neglected in the guest bedroom in which Lucy was staying, had been an unwanted present to Eustace's parents. The three children land in the ocean near the pictured vessel, the titular Dawn Treaderand are taken aboard. Also present on board are the Lord Drinian the captain of the Dawn Treader and the first mate Rhince. Peace has been established in the three years since then, and Caspian has undertaken a quest in fulfilment of his coronation oath to sail east for a year and a day and find the seven lost Lords of Narnia : Argoz, Bern, Mavramorn, Octesian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile, Revilian, and Rhoop. He mentions that Trumpkin the dwarf has been left in charge of Narnia as Lord Regent in his absence. Lucy and Edmund are delighted to be back in the Narnian world, but Eustace is less enthusiastic, as he has never been there before and had taunted his cousins with his belief that this alternate universe had never existed. The Talking Mouse Reepicheep is also on board, as he hopes to find Aslan's Country beyond the seas of the "utter East". When Eustace teases Reepicheep, much is revealed about the mouse's Book 5) character. They first make landfall in the Lone Islandsnominally Narnian territory but fallen away from Narnian ways: in particular the slave trade flourishes here, despite Narnian law stating that it is forbidden. Caspian, Lucy, Edmund, Eustace and Reepicheep are captured as merchandise by a slave trader, and a man "buys" Caspian before they even reach the slave market. He turns out to be the first lost lord, Lord Bernwho moved to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile islands and married a woman there after being banished from Narnia by Miraz. When Caspian reveals his identity, Bern acknowledges him as King. Caspian reclaims the islands for Narnia, and replaces Gumpas, the greedy governor, with Lord Bern, whom he names Duke of the Lone Islands. At the second island they visit, Eustace leaves the group to avoid participating in the work needed to render the ship seaworthy after a storm has damaged it, and hides in a dead dragon 's cave to escape a sudden downpour. The dragon's treasure arouses his greed: he fills his pockets with gold and jewels and puts on a large golden bracelet; but as he sleeps, he is transformed into a dragon. As a dragon, he becomes aware of how bad his previous behaviour was. He attempts to shed his dragon skin without success. It is only with the help of Aslan that he is able to become human again, though the process is very painful. Caspian recognises the bracelet: it belonged to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile Octesian, another of the lost lords. They speculate that the dragon killed Octesian — or The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the Chronicles of Narnia Facsimile that the dragon was Octesian. Aslan turns Eustace back into a boy, and as a result of his experiences he is now a much nicer person. They Book 5) escape being sunk by a sea-serpent and stop at Deathwater Island, so named Book 5) a pool of water which turns everything immersed in it into gold, including one of the missing lords who turns out to have been Lord Restimar. Then they land on the Duffers ' Island, where Lucy removes an invisibility spell from the Duffers later Dufflepuds at their request and befriends the Magician who cast it. Eventually they reach the Island of the Star, where they find the three remaining lost lords in enchanted sleep. Ramanduthe fallen star who lives on the island with his daughter, tells them that the only way to awaken them is to sail to the edge of the world and there to leave one member of the crew behind. Lord Rhoop wishes to "sleep without dreams" beside his friends until they wake and everyone agrees before they set out again. The Dawn Treader continues sailing into an area where merpeople dwell and the water turns sweet rather than salty, as Reepicheep discovers when he belligerently jumps in to fight a mer-man who he thinks challenged him. At last the water becomes so shallow that the ship can go Book 5) farther. Caspian orders a boat lowered and announces that he will go to the world's end with Reepicheep. The crew object, saying that as King of Narnia he has no right to abandon them. Caspian goes to his cabin in a temper, but returns to say that Aslan appeared in his cabin and told him that only Lucy, Edmund, Eustace, and Reepicheep will go on. These four named venture in a small boat through a sea of lilies until they reach a wall of water that extends into the sky. Fulfilling Ramandu's condition, Reepicheep paddles his coracle up the waterfall and is never again seen in Narnia. Edmund, Eustace, and Lucy find a Lamb, who transforms into Aslan and tells them that Edmund and Lucy will not return to Narnia and that they should Book 5) to know him by 'another name' in their own world. He then sends the children home. It is mentioned that the four lords woke again when Caspian returned to Book 5) island and he married Ramandu's daughter. Eventually, the Dawn Treader and everyone else safely return to Narnia. Back in the human world, everyone remarks on how Eustace has changed and "you'd never know him for the same boy" — although his mother believes that Edmund and Lucy have been a bad influence on him in the way that they have made him "commonplace and tiresome". Several weeks or months after reading the proofs for the British edition of The Chronicles[ clarification needed ] Lewis read through the proofs for the American edition. While doing so, he Book 5) several changes to the text. When HarperCollins took over publication of the series in they made the unusual decision to ignore the changes that Lewis had made and use the earlier text as the standard for their editions. In Dawn TreaderLewis made two changes; one minor and one of more substance. The minor change appears in the first chapter where Lewis changes the description of Eustace from "far too stupid to make anything up himself" to "quite incapable of making anything up himself". Paul Ford, author of Companion to Narniasuggests that Lewis might have felt the need to soften the passage for his American readers or perhaps he was starting to like Eustace better. Lewisnotes that the passage should have been changed in both cases as "calling a character 'stupid' in a children's book is insensitive and unwise". The more substantive change appears in Chapter 12, "The Dark Island", where Lewis rewrote the ending in a way that, Schakel maintains, improves the imaginative experience considerably. The reader cannot [in this version] dismiss the island as unreal or as no longer existing: it is still there, and anyone who can get to Narnia still could get caught in it. More important, the inserted analogy, with its second-person pronouns, draws readers into the episode and evokes in them the same emotions the characters experience. This is no laughing matter, as the earlier version risks making it. I would give all my treasure not to hear it. Boucher and McComas found Voyage "not quite up to the high level set by previous Narnian adventures". They singled out Reepicheep for praise as "one of Lewis's finest imaginings. Researcher Sue Baines wrote: "In contrast to other Narnia books, Dawn Treader has virtually no overt villains, other than the slavers in the very beginning who are quickly overcome and disposed of. Rather, the plot confronts the protagonists again and again with the flaws of their own character. Eustace's greediness and general bad behavior cause him to turn into a dragon, and he must work hard to show himself worthy of becoming human again; Caspian is tempted to seize the magic pool which turns everything to gold — which would have turned Caspian himself into a greedy tyrant ready to kill in order to preserve his power and wealth; later, Caspian faces the nobler but still wrong-headed temptation to go off to Aslan's Country and abandon his responsibilities as a King; Lucy is tempted to make herself magically beautiful, which would have led to her becoming the focus of terrible wars devastating Narnia and all its neighbors; and having resisted this temptation, she succumbs to a lesser temptation to magically spy on her schoolmates — and is punished by hearing malicious things and destroying what could have developed into an enduring nice friendship.