Gus Powell "The Horse and His Boy," by C.S. Lewis

I read The Horse and His Boy for this blog post, and it is volume 3 in a seven book series called The Chronicles of Narnia. It follows a young boy named Shasta in his escape from slavery in the land of Calormen, for all intensive purposes, with a horse that can talk, as they go into the beautiful land of Narnia. First, Shasta basically goes over some background information that involves his "father."  His "father" is a fisherman who lives only with Shasta and goes to nearby towns to sell at the market. Eventually a tarkan, which is a governor I think, who wants to buy Shasta. Shasta overhears this conversation and meets the governor's horse, who can talk. He is from Narnia. They decide to run off to no longer be under the servitude of another person, and go north. Along the way, they get chased by lions and meet a young girl named Aravis. It turns out, she, being royalty, was being forced to marry a horrible man, and she fled. Together, with her horse that can also talk, they go north and through the town called Tashbaan. There was a mix up, when, Shasta finds someone who looks exactly like him, and gets confused for loyalty. Later, after more weird adventures, they all meet up at the edge of the town, and make a trek through a desert, and end up in Narnia. There are greater events happening, when the group finds themselves in the middle of a battle between Narnia and Calormen, when Shasta's "twin" helps beat the Calormen. It turns out, Shasta is royalty, and the person who looks exactly like him, Corin, is his twin brother. When Shasta was a baby, there was a shipwreck, and he was set adrift in a lifeboat, and that's when his "father" found him. Later Shasta goes on to rule a land part of Narnia and marries Aravis. This book is one of my favorites and is the book that really comes to my mind when I think of The Chronicles of Narnia. That's how The Horse and His Boy has affected me.