It turns out the ship they’re on belongs to their friend, Caspian the Tenth, now King of Narnia, and the name of the ship is Dawn Treader.Īfter introductions are made on both sides and the newcomers given dry clothes, we get an idea of the passage of time. Thankfully, the ship that had been in the picture is right there, larger than life, and they’re rescued. And … came the noises… the smell, the wild, briny smell…’Īll three children find themselves swept ‘ off their feet’ and drawn ‘ down into the sea.’ ‘ The things in the picture were moving… Down went the prow of the ship into the wave and up went a great shock of spray… Lucy felt her hair whipping round her face as it does on a windy day… but the wind was blowing out of the picture towards them. Then, something starts to happen with the picture. To their annoyance, Eustace appears and begins to tease them about Narnia. They both agreed it looked ‘ “a very Narnian ship.”’ She had only one mast and one large, square sail… a rich purple… The sides… were green…’ Her prow was gilded and shaped like the head of a dragon with wide-open mouth. When we join Edmund and Lucy, they’re in the room Lucy will be using for the duration of their stay and both are looking at a picture on the wall, ‘ the only picture in the house that they liked… It was a picture of a ship… sailing straight towards you.

Peter, ‘ working very hard for an exam’ is spending the summer with Professor Kirke (whom we met in ‘ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’).Įdmund and Lucy don’t get on with Eustace at all and he doesn’t think much of his cousins either.īeing of a practical mindset, he has no time for make-believe things and, having overheard the four siblings talk of it before, loves teasing them about Narnia, which he believes is a made-up place. The children’s father is going to America on a job and their mother will be accompanying him along with Susan. He’s a cousin of the Pevensie children, two of whom will be spending the summer with him and his parents the two unfortunates being Edmund and Lucy.

The story begins in our world with one of my favourite opening lines – ‘ There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.’ On this extraordinary voyage of discovery they encounter a dragon, a sea serpent, a band of invisible people, a magician, and also the great Aslan himself, who makes them a very special promise.’ ‘ Lucy and Edmund, with their odious cousin Eustace, journey on board the gallant ship Dawn Treader to the Eastern Seas in search of the seven lost friends of King Caspian the Ninth. “You can’t know… You can only believe – or not.”

Narnia voyage of the dawn treader book