The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a high fantasy novel by C.S. Lewis published by Geoffrey Bles in 1952. It was the third published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956) and Lewis finished writing it in 1950, before the first book was published. It is volume five in recent editions, which are sequenced according to Narnian history. Like the others it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes and her work has been retained in many later editions. It is the only Narnia book not featuring a main villain. Lewis dedicated the book to Geoffrey Corbett: he is the foster-son of Owen Barfield, the friend, teacher, adviser, and trustee of Lewis.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader features a second return to the Narnia world, about three years later in Narnia and one year later in England, by Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, the younger two of the four English children featured in the first two books. Prince Caspian is now King Caspian X. He leads a sea voyage to the eastern end of the world, which the English siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb magically join soon after his ship Dawn Treader sets sail.
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