Baba's Reviews > The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

One of my fave Narnia books when I was a child, the crew of the Dawn Treader are joined by Ed, Lucy and Eustace as they seek out the Seven expelled Lords who sailed East seven years earlier. Eustace is a great character, in that he behaves as a few most certainly would, with utter disbelief, shock, and also borderline horror at the 'backward' Narnian reality, as well as forever questioning and assigning his own ideas of the motives and aims of his fellow crew.

The trip sailing East, allows C.S. Lewis to really expand on the Narnia reality and show us what else is out there, which he does with aplomb. It's C.S. Lewis goes wild with a mesh of dark fairy tale style adventures from dragons and one-legged bouncing dwarves to clouds of darkness and mesmerising mer-people. It's Lewis's creativity and gift for storytelling that should dwarf (pun intended?) any and all Christian symbolism in the series. Another gem!