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    Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    Audiobook5 hours

    Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    Written by C. S. Lewis

    Narrated by Derek Jacobi

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The unabridged digital audio edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, book five in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Derek Jacobi.

    The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his first voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, their cousin Eustace, and Caspian to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World.

    The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the fifth book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, a series that has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. This is a novel that stands on its own, but if you would like to continue to the journey, read The Silver Chair, the sixth book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 24, 2005
    ISBN9780060854386
    Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.

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    • 5/5
      The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is my undisputed favourite, however much I love all the others. It has everything that I love about Narnia in it -- the warm, personal narrator; Caspian; Reepicheep; my favourite Pevensies... There's something about the more episodic structure that appeals, too. There's lots of detail that I find lovely, even just the little detail, like the spell for the refreshment of the soul in the magician's book, and the way Eustace feels like it's peeling a scab off when Aslan peels off his skin, and the sea-people in their sea-kingdom.

      I can't put my finger on why Caspian is my favourite character of all the Narnia books. My mental image of him is beautiful, which I suppose helps: there was very good, gorgeous cover art on my original edition, I think. And he's noble, and good. I suppose it also helps that he's human, that sometimes I want to kick him -- it makes him less than too good to be true.

      This story is utterly golden in my mind.

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    • 4/5
      This has been my favorite of the Narnia books that I have read so far. I enjoyed it from the first line: "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." I was curious how Lewis was going to incorporate Eustace into the story, but he did an excellent job. I loved the search for the seven lords, the dufflepuds, the magicians. This story kept me more than the rest. I truly, truly enjoyed the fancy of it all, though the ending was sad. And Reepicheep! He might be one of my most favorite characters in all of children's literature. So small, yet so fierce!

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    • 5/5
      We enjoyed this one very much. Sebastian (my 7-year-old son) became an instant fan of Reepicheep the talking mouse, even though I never quite managed to develop a distinctive voice for him.

      Placing the story primarily outside of Narnia was a good idea; the result is a considerably more imaginative book than the previous one (Prince Caspian).

      As always, I must note that the numbering placed on modern editions of the books by the publisher is wrong. The books should be read in the order in which they were written; reading them in the "modern" order actually ruins many of the surprises.

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    • 5/5
      Edmund, Lucy, and their insipid cousin Eustace go on a Narnian adventure with King Caspian to find the end of the world (and the border of Aslan’s land). Many adventures ensue. Most enjoyable. :)

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    • 5/5
      Read this book!
      It is the best book ever
      -Peter
    • 5/5
      The third of The Chronicles of Narnia in the order in which they were published (and, at the moment, my preferred order), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader begins with what may be one of the best opening lines in all of literature: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” This Eustace, a very “modern,” “grown-up,” selfish and peevish little bully, happens to be related to our old friends the Pevensies from the previous books. The two youngest children, Edmund and Lucy, are vacationing with the Scrubbs when our story begins. The three of them are drawn together into a painting of a ship in Lucy’s bedroom, and find themselves in Narnia aboard the ship of another old friend—Prince, now King, Caspian—who is on a voyage east to find what became of seven Telmarine lords whom his uncle Miraz sent away year before. But the mouse Reepicheep has a yet greater ambition, to sail to the very end of the world, to Aslan’s country, and meet whatever adventure awaits them there.In nature, this story is episodic, but to bind it together Lewis provides not only a great and glorious quest, but also two of the greatest characters in all of the Chronicles: Eustace, and Reepicheep. Both provide some comic relief near the beginning of the book—Eustace’s journal entries are particularly hilarious, as are his repeated demands to speak to the British consul—but both are characters of such great depth. Reepicheep, like several other characters in Prince Caspian, is a creature of faith. He wants nothing more than to go to Aslan’s country, and none of the dangers and fears along the way can conquer that desire. He is fearless, wise, and brave, even if he is only two feet high! Eustace is, to put it kindly, a beast, but he is so selfish he thinks instead that everyone around him are beasts. Only when he becomes one externally does he realize how greatly he needs help on the interior. I love the subtle and realistic way Lewis treats his reformation:It would be nice, and fairly nearly true, to say that “from that time on Eustace was a different boy.” To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun.Actually, all the characters are beautifully drawn. I am amazed at how much Lucy grows as a person in each additional book, and Edmund too. Caspian is more well-rounded here than he was in the last volume, and becomes more so at the end when he is unable to gain what his heart most greatly desires. For him, and for the others, this is a voyage that will change the rest of their lives.Of course, the adventures they encounter are varied and fascinating as well, and only become more beautiful and exciting the further east they go. As a child I was incredibly excited by the episode in which Caspian frees the Lone Islands from tyranny and a brutal slave trade, and today I find I still am. And who can forget Eustace’s experiences on Dragon Island? Or Deathwater Island with its terrible power and beauty? Or the invisible, “uglified,” always-agreeing dufflepuds? (The last was one of my sister’s favorite episodes in the book, and we both laughed many times over lines like “And what I say is, when chaps are visible, why, they can see each other.”) Or the horrors of the Dark Island, or the wonders of Ramandu’s Island? And then there are the wonders of that last sea, where the water is sweet, covered in lilies, and bathed in light. And, finally, a glimpse of Aslan’s country itself.I know many Narnia fans consider this there favorite Chronicle, almost as many as accord The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that title. But for some reason the Caspian books were always my least favorites when I was a child, and I haven’t quite “rediscovered” this book the way I did with Prince Caspian. Still, this is a beautiful sea voyage story with deep themes, lovable characters, and exciting adventures. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      A voyage to the very ends of the worldNarnia ... where a dragon awakens ... where stars walk the earth ... where anything can happen.A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted waters, they discover that their quest is more than they imagined and that the world's end is only the beginning.
    • 5/5
      This is CS Lewis at his most imaginative and his pros at its most silvery. My favorite of the Narnia series. A caution for a few of you: this is not a woke book. There is monarchy by birthright, and the denigration of certain races of people.
    • 5/5
      Okay, this one was realy my favorite. When Eustace turns into a dragon ... A good read!
    • 5/5
      The first thing that was a good app is the app it needs a little bit of the app and it keeps crashing when it comes to my iPad to get the iPad app out to my iPhone to get a hold on the iPad to play with the app to get a hold on the iPad to see how much I can play with my iPhone to see how much it takes for me and the iPad version of my iPad
    • 5/5
      This is my favorite of all the Chronicles. The characters are wonderful, but the adventures are beyond delightful. Like Caspian at the end, I was wishing I could go further in and higher up.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book very adventurous and keeps interesting
    • 5/5
      One of my favorites of the Narnia series, I love seeing the development of Eustice. I have read this numerous times.
    • 5/5
      I wish it would never end!!
      Its always such a good book! ?
    • 5/5
      This book is a great book. Derek Jacobi should be glad to have read this book. God bless him.
    • 5/5
      It’s so interesting and it has a good moral in it.
      And it’s easy to understand for kids
    • 5/5
      this book was great!!! I would definitely recommend this for any age!!!
    • 3/5
      Lucy and Edmund are back in Narnia, this time on a journey across the sea to find what lies beyond the known world. Another enjoyabe story to mysterious lands. How it comes to be that they're brought back there is not explained, and the author seems to want to reader to take more and more things on faith as the novel progesses. The ending was not as solid as previous books, with no specific climax. More religious tones abound, especially in the end when Aslan tells the children to look for him by another name in their world.
    • 5/5
      This, the third installment in C.S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, is the first of them to achieve true greatness in fantasy, and it is the first that I can heartily recommend to adults. Even the first sentence is of a higher literary order than the previous two books, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Prince Caspian." Though there isn't much of a plot, the characters are better, the individual stories (told, usually, in several chapters), and the imagination are all of a higher order. And the moral sense has also reached new heights. The story of Eustace and the dragon, alone, is worth not only the price of the book, but whatever disutility one may have to embrace by reading the previous books in the series.A great book.Oh, and note. Though third in the series as written, it's fifth in the series chronologically. I can't say that I recommend reading the books chronologically, though, other than if the reader is especially delighted in weird fantasy, since the chronological sixth book ("The Magician's Nephew"), which takes place first in the imagined chronology, is a mighty strange book indeed. This is the order I recommend reading the books:1. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe2. The Horse and His Boy3. Prince Caspian4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader5. The Silver Chair6. The Magician's Nephew7. The Last BattleIn this order, if you do not like the first two books, it's probably simply the case that you won't like even the best of them, this, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader."
    • 4/5
      C.S. Lewis always transcends the adventurous, dangerous positions the characters get into with a comforting gentleness. If he weren't such a master of this, the Narnia series would be occasionally terrifying. The imagery in "Dawn Treader", especially as they approach the edge of the world, is lovely. Lucy gets to kick ass several ways from Tuesday. The story has our heroes--The Pevensies, along with their curmudgeon-turned-sweet cousin Eustace and King (previously Prince) Caspian--venturing east from the known Narnian world pursuing islands where seven lords are believed to have been lost. Each island brings adventure.
    • 3/5
      I struggled a little through this book. I still find the series enchanting but it was hard to get through. Two more to go! I'm a little disappointed that the Pevensies are not all in Narnia.
    • 4/5
      I must say, I really changed my mind about this book...for the better, actually. I'm not sure if it was just that I was distracted while reading the beginning of this book or what, but I had a horrible feeling that it was going to be awful. Besides that, I'm not a big fan of stories about sea-bound adventures. However, I ended up truly enjoying this book. It was wonderful seeing King Caspian and the two Pevensie children, as always. And even Eustace turned out to be a character that I enjoyed! I really loved how they got into so many different adventures...fantastical things that would never happen anywhere else. My favorite adventures were with the Dufflepuds and at the very end of the world. I laughed out loud at the Dufflepuds in some parts, which is very rare for me to do with a book...so you know it's good :) And, I have to say, with the last two books holding battles, it was nice to have a fairly relaxed book. Not that there weren't troubles in this book, it was just that there wasn't so much of the sense of evil, nasty people wanting to take over Narnia.
    • 4/5
      As a child, this was my favorite of the Narnia series: a wide-ranging quest story, sending the characters beyond the boundaries of Narnia into the unknowns of the Lone Islands. There were adventures, daring, laughs and scares enough to go around. As an adult, coming back to the story, my position has changed a bit. It's still a very good story, but like most quest tales, it feels episodic, never really leading up to any particular climax; in fact, although it concludes with some beautiful imagery, the last few chapters really tailspin into a simple travelogue with no real plot. I found, this time, I wanted more: I wanted to follow Reepicheep into the sea beyond the end of the world, I wanted to visit Caspian on his sad return back to Ramandu's island, and his marriage to the wizard's daughter. Lewis leaves us hanging with a handful of great scenarios he only hints at, instead returning us - with stunning brevity - to the mundane world of reality and the end of the book. There are also some problematic aspects with the whole tone of the book. Lewis' essential moral in "Dawn Treader" seems to be that we should "be happy with our lot," because it is dissatisfaction that just keeps coming back again and again to bite at the characters. Eustace becomes a dragon when everyone's just about had enough of his moaninng; one of Caspian's lost lords falls prey to the lure of gold; the Dufflepuds are unhappy with their physical forms; Caspian himself nearly forsakes his kingdom to sail to Aslan's country. There's even a telling little moment when Caspian faces down a white slaver, who claims that such transactions are "progress." Caspian's response? That in Narnia, progress is not seen as necessarily a good thing. (And that's C.S. Lewis, a traditionalist if ever there was one, speaking straight through his characters.) But the problem is that if everyone did just what they were supposed to, there would be no excitement in this world, no wonder or adventure. Lewis comes close to admitting that with Lucy's despair at being unable to return to Narnia, but no...even that is seen as something she must accept. It's a bit of a weird message to send kids: don't get bigger than your boots, Johnny, or else.All that said, it's still a stirring adventure story, and it has some of Lewis' finest prose: his description of the end of the world is breathtaking, and there's a lovely little set piece when Lucy discovers the wizard's book on the island of the Duffers. As I have been listening to the unabridged audiobook, I should point out that Sir Derek Jacobi's narration is, as one might expect, everything you could ever wish for. Occasionally his high-pitched Reepicheep is a little trying, but the variety of voices and vocal levels he employs is really admirable, and he has a wonderfully kind and gentle narrative tone - rather like a kindly uncle. It's a wonderful listening experience overall.
    • 4/5
      These a great books about adventure. You could use them to talk about geography, royalty or war. You can use these in small groups or whole group.
    • 5/5
      Strongest entry in the series.
    • 5/5
      This book read like a great adventure story, more so than Prince Caspian or LWW. It was fun and fantastic.
    • 5/5
      This reads a bit like "Gulliver's Travels". Lucy and Edmund are back in Narnia with their cousin, Eustace. They travel with Prince Caspian from island to island, following the faint trail of some Narnian lords who set sail for the end of the world some time back. Along the way Eustace loses his "beastliness" (with the help of a dragon adventure) and various lessons about character are learned. One of the bright stars of this novel is Reepicheep, the brave-hearted Talking Mouse. We're looking forward to the movie!
    • 4/5
      Shortly after the events of the novel Price Caspian, Lucy and Edmond find themselves drawn back to Narnia with their intolerable cousin, Eustace. Three years have passed, and Caspian X is still on the throne. Well, he's on a boat when they arrive, but figuratively, he's still on the throne.He has vowed to find the seven Lost Lords, and has embarked on a ship called the Dawn Trader to do it. He,the Pevensies, Eustace Scrubb, and some familiar characters from PC, including everybody's favorite swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep, embark on the journey together, which is rife with peril and replete with adventure.Part of Lewis' Caspian Triad (followed by The Silver Chair), which is further part of the Chronicles of Narnia, this book belongs on the shelf of those who like Lewis' other work, or are looking for family-friendly (though somewhat religiously allegorical) literature to read their kids at night. Recommended for fans of more youth-oriented, religion-inspired, classic fantasy.
    • 4/5
      This book by C.S. Lewis continues the Narnia adventures. This time however, it is Edmund and Lucy who go with their cousin, Eustace. They fall into a painting of a ship on an ocean that has the current king of Narnia aboard, Caspian. King Caspian is looking for seven lords who left long ago searching for the end of the world. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace go along with him on this journey. Eustace is a brat who learns the value of friends and work while on this journey. They get the help of Aslan, the great Lion, during times of great need. The whereabouts of the missing lords are all accounted for, but not all met pleasurable ends. In order to save the last three lords, Caspian must sail to the ends of the ocean and leave one of his crew there. Reepicheep, a valiant mouse, is more than willing, so this is what they do. At the end of the world, Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace also go with Reepicheep so they may re-enter their world. Aslan tells Lucy and Edmund they will not be coming back to Narnia.This is a great literature story that should be read to elementary students so they may appreciate this kind of work. We are going to take some of our elementary students to see this movie before Christmas break and I have encouraged our teachers to read the story before then so they may have discussions and learning activities.
    • 3/5
      Incredibly imaginative and beautiful. If you are religious, you can enjoy the immense allegory in the series, if not, enjoy it for the marvel that it is. This particular book is a bit awkward at parts, but still good.