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The Journey Home

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

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Peril, some injury in dog-in-the-wild adventure.

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Parents need to know that Hero Dog: The Journey Home is a 2021 adventure in which a blind man must find his way home with the help of an Alaskan Malamute after a boating accident leaves him stranded. This blind man and his dog try to navigate a thick forest by themselves and fall into some danger as the man,…

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Some peril throughout. The captain of a transport boat loses consciousness, caus

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Some peril throughout. The captain of a transport boat loses consciousness, causing the boat to nearly crash into land and killing a blind passenger and his dog. After the boat crash, the blind man is shown bleeding from the forehead. While in the woods, a man is attacked by a wolf. The wolf is beaten back by the person who accompanied the man on the search in the woods for a missing blind man and his dog. A brother and sister get lost in the woods while searching for their blind father and his dog. They soon lose their camping supplies and must find a way to find food and water.

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Kids show how resourceful they can be when they get lost in the woods in search of their blind father. One of the lead characters is blind, having lost his vision while serving in Afghanistan.

Parents need to know that Hero Dog: The Journey Home is a 2021 adventure in which a blind man must find his way home with the help of an Alaskan Malamute after a boating accident leaves him stranded. This blind man and his dog try to navigate a thick forest by themselves and fall into some danger as the man, already shown bleeding from his forehead after the boating accident, gets a leg trapped under a log. A man is attacked by a wolf and suffers an injury before the wolf is beaten back with a stick. The blind man's son and daughter sneak off from their house to find their dad, but then get lost themselves. They soon lose their camping gear and must fend for themselves and find their own food. Some name-calling between the siblings, like "lame-o." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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In HERO DOG: THE JOURNEY HOME, Royce ( Steve Byers ), a blind man, is commuting on a boat to see his family after working all week at his new job in the city. He's accompanied by Chinook, an Alaskan Malamute. While crossing the lake, the captain of the boat collapses and falls unconscious, and while the boat doesn't capsize in the lake or crash into the rocks near the shore, Royce is on an isolated part of the lake with no one but Chinook to help him get back. While his two kids, Max and Erin, wait for Royce at the dock with their Aunt Susan ( Natasha Henstridge ). (Their mother died of cancer two years earlier.) Susan begins to fear the worst, and the search for Royce soon begins, first on the lake and then through the thick forest around the lake.

As the search continues and Royce remains missing, Max and Erin decide to sneak out and use their camping skills to conduct a search of their own, but they soon become lost themselves. Meanwhile, Royce, with the help of Chinook, must cross rough waters, navigate dangerous crossings, and face off against a mountain lion. Nonetheless, Chinook proves to be a brave companion to Royce, with a rather extraordinary gift for orienteering. But when Royce sustains finds himself trapped beneath a log and unable to move, it's going to require the help of Chinook, Royce's kids, and the entire search party to somehow find Royce and get him and Chinook back home.

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This is a heavy-handed adventure story about a dog in the wild, but kids will probably enjoy it. It's the story of a man who lost his vision while serving his country in Afghanistan who now must find a way to navigate the deepest of woods after the captain of the boat that was to take him back to his family loses consciousness and leaves him far from home, with only an Alaskan Malamute named Chinook to get him home. There's plenty of the requisite peril -- everything from mountain lions to wolves to merciless rocks and rapids, and if that's not enough, the son and daughter of the lead character soon become lost themselves after they try to use their camping skills to do what the helicopters, planes, and walkie talkies of the search party cannot do. But no matter. Chinook is preternaturally gifted at orienteering, and knows when to bark when the danger to the humans is especially eminent.

The lead character is not only blind, but he has also lost his wife to cancer two years ago. He works a job in "the city" now that the local mine has closed. Also, his son resents his dad for taking the job because that means they're going to move to the big city, and the son wants to continue to enjoy his life in the great outdoors. It's already a lot, so it seems a bit much to also have to face off against a rabid mountain lion with nothing but a flare gun and a big dog. It's clearly in the tradition of the older Disney movies with gifted pets who rescue their grateful human counterparts, but it really doesn't do anything new with that tried-and-true formula. Still, dog lovers will enjoy seeing a heroic dog do his thing.

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• On DVD or streaming : March 23, 2021
• Cast : Natasha Henstridge , Steve Byers , Zackary Arthur
• Director : Richard Boddington
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Grindstone Entertainment Group
• Genre : Action/Adventure
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• Character Strengths : Perseverance , Teamwork
• Run time : 90 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG
• MPAA explanation : Some peril.
• Last updated : October 8, 2022

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Radhanath Swami, a renowned vaishnava saint, is also a member of the governing body commission of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He is the spiritual guru for many number of devotees around the world. He has authored several spiritual books including Evolve: Two Minute Wisdom, Nectar Stream, and Gauranga - The golden incarnation of divine love.

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Born in Chicago in 1950, Radhanath Swami, sets out to wander the world on a spiritual quest. Arriving in India in 1970, he lives the life of a wandering mendicant, travelling both outwardly and inwardly. Within months, his young world is augmented by experience, realization, soul-stirring revelations and near death experiences. He imbibes the teachings of great yogis, monks, and gurus including Swami Sivananda, Swami Rama, Swami Satchitananda, Swami Chidananda, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Ananda Mayi Ma, Neem Karoli Baba, Muktananda, the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa. He meets lepers and Naga Babas, contemplative Buddhists and mystic yogis. Living in Himalayan caves, forests and under trees, he moves through the subcontinent with a thirst for "the truth" that is rarely seen. Fasting and meditating for a month on the Banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, he hears the celestial sound of mantras emerging from the Holy River.

Each experience brings him closer to the core of India's mystic teachings and to the divine love he has been seeking. He reveals all in "The Journey Home", a penetrating account into the heart of a seeker, filled with humor, adventure, wisdom, and inspiration. Perhaps not since, Autobiography of A Yogi, has such a lucid and intricate tale of one man's revelation of the soul been so wonderfully recounted. As a man of infinite depth and grace, his life story offers all who hear it, an infinite wisdom.

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Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. He was educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. He died at his home in Oracle, Arizona, in 1989.

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Summary of latest statistics

Published 22 August 2024

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This Accredited Official Statistics publication provides statistics describing the UK immigration system. This summary chapter provides a brief overview, with a selection of key statistics from each of the chapters in the full report.

The UK immigration system contains a wide range of Home Office activities including issuing short and long term visas to those outside of the UK, extensions and changes to visas, granting of settlement and citizenship to those already in the UK, providing safe and legal (humanitarian) routes of entry, as well as providing asylum and carrying out enforcement action. Figure 1 provides a summary of these different aspects of the immigration system.

Figure 1: Summary of the UK immigration system 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , year ending June 2024

• This diagram is a simplification and doesn’t include all parts of the immigration system, such as people crossing the border who do not require a visa, or irregular arrivals. Data in different parts of the immigration system is not always comparable.
• Safe and legal (humanitarian) routes include visas granted on the Ukraine, Hong Kong BN(O) and family reunion routes, as well as refugee resettlement and relocation in the UK.
• The EU settlement scheme ( EUSS ) figure relates to grants of settled status or pre-settled status, in the year ending June 2024.
• Immigration detention relates to the number of people in detention on 30 June 2024.

Overview of people coming to the UK

The majority of the 128.4 million passenger arrivals in the UK in the year ending June 2024 were British nationals. Of the non-British arrivals, most will be short-term arrivals such as visitors, with smaller numbers arriving for other reasons (such as work, study and family).

In the year ending June 2024, 1.16 million visas were granted for work, study or family reasons (including dependants). In the same period, 38,784 people were detected arriving in the UK by irregular routes.

75,167 people were granted permission to come to the UK by safe and legal routes such as the Ukraine and BN(O) schemes, refugee resettlement and family reunion (note family reunion visas are included in the ‘Family visas’ category, not ‘Safe and legal’ in Figure 2) and 45,886 were granted ‘Other’ visas.

Figure 2: Number of visas granted to come to the UK by main category (excluding visitors and transit), and number of detected irregular arrivals, year ending June 2024 (main applicants and dependants)

Source: Entry clearance visa applications and outcomes – Vis_D02 , Asylum and resettlement summary tables – Asy_11 , Irregular migration to the UK - Irr_D01

• ‘Other visas’ include settlement visas, temporary visas (exc. transit), EUSS family permits and some other family members coming to accompany others.
• ‘Safe and legal’ includes out of country Ukraine and BN(O) schemes and refugee resettlement. It excludes family reunion visas which are included in ‘Family visas’.
• Chart does not include visitors or transit visas, those coming to the UK who have indefinitely leave to remain or status on the EU Settlement Scheme, non-visa national visits, or undetected irregular arrivals.

1. How many people come to the UK each year (including visitors)?

Key statistics:

• in the year ending June 2024 there were 128.4 million passenger arrivals, 11% more than the preceding year. This number includes British nationals and people who do not require a visa to travel to the UK
• there were 3.4 million entry clearance visas granted in the year ending June 2024, of which 62% were visitor visas
• there were 2.1 million visitor visas in the latest year, 16% higher than the previous year

2. Why do people come to the UK? To work

• there were 286,382 visas granted to main applicants in all work categories in the year ending June 2024, 11% fewer than the previous year, but more than double (+109%) 2019 levels
• there were 89,095 ‘Health and Care Worker’ visas granted to main applicants in the year ending June 2024, a 26% decrease compared to the previous year, with a notable fall in the latest quarter (April to June 2024), which was 81% lower than the same period in 2023
• the number of grants to main applicants on other routes in the ‘Worker’ category (which includes ‘Skilled Worker’ visas) has more than doubled since 2021, but in the latest year has fallen by 3% to 88,653
• there were 260,392 visas issued to work dependants in year ending June 2024, with ‘Health and Care Worker’ dependants alone accounting for 69% of the total
• the number of ‘Temporary Worker’ visas granted to main applicants in the year ending June 2024 was 77,419, with 34,332 grants for seasonal workers and 24,091 grants on the Youth Mobility Scheme

For further details see ‘ Why do people come to the UK? To work ’.

3. Why do people come to the UK? To study

• there were 432,225 sponsored study visas granted to foreign students in the year ending June 2024, 13% fewer than the previous year but 61% higher than 2019
• two-thirds (65%) of student visas in the latest year were for masters level courses
• in the first 6 months of 2024 (January to June), visas issued to dependants of students fell by 81% to 11,675 compared to the same period in 2023 (main applicants fell by 23% over the same period)

For further details see ‘ Why do people come to the UK? To study ’.

4. Why do people come to the UK? For family reasons

• in the year ending June 2024, there were 98,906 family-related visa applications, reflecting a significant 40% increase compared to the previous year
• those arriving on family routes are more likely to stay in the UK than those arriving on work and study visas. Analysis from the Migrant journey: 2023 report shows that of those whose first leave to enter the UK was on the family route since 2007, 62% had indefinite leave to remain ( ILR ) after 5 years, increasing to 83% after 10 years. This is much higher than those starting on work and study routes, where 21% and 7% respectively had ILR after 10 years

For further details see ‘ Why do people come to the UK? For family reasons ’.

5. Safe and legal (humanitarian) routes to the UK

• in the year ending June 2024, 93,342 people were offered a safe and legal (humanitarian) route to come to, or remain in, the UK
• there were 39% fewer visas granted on a safe and legal (humanitarian) routes in the year ending June 2024 when compared to the previous year, largely due to the reduction in the use of Ukraine Scheme Visas and Extensions

Figure 3: People offered safe and legal (humanitarian) routes to the UK, by route, from the year ending June 2019 to 2024

Source: Asylum and resettlement summary tables - Asy_11

For further details see ‘ Safe and legal (humanitarian) routes to the UK ’.

6. How many people do we grant protection to?

• over 97,000 people applied for asylum in the year ending June 2024, relating to just over 75,000 applications (8% fewer that the previous year, in part due to the decrease in claims from Albanian small boat arrivals)
• there were 91,885 initial decisions on asylum applications in the year ending June 2024, 4 times as many as in the previous year due to more asylum decision makers and increased productivity
• more than half (58%) of the initial decisions in year ending June 2024 were grants of protection, a lower proportion than the 71% in year ending June 2023
• at the end of June 2024, the number of asylum cases awaiting an initial decision (85,839 cases, relating to 118,882 people) was more than one-third (36%) lower than at the end of June 2023

Figure 4: Asylum applications and initial decisions, year ending December 2001 to year ending June 2024

Source: Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement – Asy_D01, Asy_D02 and Asy_D03

For further details see ‘ How many people do we grant protection to? ’.

7. How many people are granted settlement or citizenship?

• there were 137,020 grants of settlement in the UK in year ending June 2024, 17% more than the year ending June 2023, (117,023)
• there were almost a quarter of a million (246,488) grants of British citizenship in year ending June 2024, over a third (37%) more than the year ending June 2023, (180,243)

For further details see ‘ How many people are granted settlement or citizenship? ’.

8. How many people are granted settlement via the EU Settlement Scheme?

• there have been 8.1 million EU Settlement Scheme ( EUSS ) applications made by 6.3 million people since the scheme launched up to 30 June 2024
• 7.9 million applications had been concluded since the scheme launched up to 30 June 2024, of which 50% (3.9 million) were granted settled status, 36% (2.8 million) were granted pre-settled status and 15% had other outcomes

For further details see ‘ How many people have been granted settlement via the EU settlement scheme ’.

9. How many people are detained or returned?

• 18,918 people entered immigration detention in the year ending June 2024, 12% fewer than the previous year, continuing the downward trend since 2015, and partly because small boat arrivals are now processed at Manston rather than in the detention estate
• total enforced returns increased by around a half (48%) to 7,190 in the year ending June 2024, around the same level they were in 2019 (7,198) prior to the pandemic, but this was largely due to an 87% rise in Albanian enforced returns last year to 2,822

For further details see ‘ How many people are detained or returned? ’.

10. Additional Home Office migration statistics

The Home Office publishes a range of migration analysis . Details on the developments and future plans for Home Office ‘Immigration system statistics’ can be found in ‘ Developments in migration statistics ’.

10.1 Irregular migration

• there were 38,784 irregular arrivals detected in year ending June 2024, down 26% from the previous year
• there were 31,493 small boat arrivals in year ending June 2024 (81% of total irregular arrivals), down 29% on the previous year
• Afghans were the top small boat arrival nationality, accounting for 18% of small boat arrivals in year ending June 2024
• in the year ending June 2024, just under a third of the total number of people claiming asylum were small boat arrivals
• there were 2,336 returns in the year ending June 2024 of people who had previously arrived in the UK on a small boat, more than double the previous year (1,046)

For further details see ‘ Irregular migration to the UK ’. For more recent data on daily small boat arrivals see ‘ Small boat activity in the English Channel ’.

10.2 Migration transparency

Figures on performance against service standards and processing times are published as part of the Home Office migration transparency. For further details see ‘ Migration transparency data ’.

10.3 Migrant Journey

The Migrant Journey report provides evidence on the behaviour of migrants entering the UK immigration system for the main routes of entry to the UK and the common pathways through the immigration system that result in settlement. Extracts of the analysis feature throughout the Immigration system statistics. For the full report see ‘ Migrant journey ’.

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Start your Journey: Choosing Your Assistant

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The legend of Troy – a city sparking with fire, a cataclysmic war and a refugee crisis – always has something more to offer writers looking for inspiration. The unspeakable horrors of conflict. The brutalities written on women’s bodies. The journey that, for the victors, means a voyage home, and for the victims, a farewell to freedom.

And it’s very much the season for Troy. Emily Wilson’s landmark Iliad translation was released in paperback on August 6. Stephen Fry’s Odyssey retelling will be published in September. My own book, Mythica – a new history of Homer’s world, told through the real women written out of it – is published next spring.

And now the final novel in Pat Barker’s Trojan War series, The Voyage Home , is here. This three-part voyage began with The Silence of the Girls in 2018, a rewriting of the Iliad that hurled a pointed question against the logic of the glory of war, and the epics that tell it.

Barker’s angle (both in The Silence of the Girls and its 2021 sequel, The Women of Troy , 2021) is to insist, unrelentingly, on the grim, real hideousness of war. The range and scope of the horror is vast: from macroscopic crimes of genocide, enslavement and mass rape that stain the Trojan War, to microscale realities of battle in “shit”, “piss” and (unforgettably) the “goose-fat jar” shared by the raped victims of the Greeks.

The trilogy is a harrowing read, but a necessary one. Each book prises myth and war out of the self-justification of men like Agamemnon and Achilles who refused to see women and enslaved people as worthy. These stories demand, uncompromisingly, a confrontation with the consequences.

Life after war

The Voyage Home moves from the atrocities committed in the ruins of battle to the repercussions those crimes have on the life after, at “home” and asks: what does that even mean, when one man’s home is another woman’s prison?

As in Barker’s other novels, the language is plain to the point of crudeness (there’s plenty of “piss” and “shit”). And, for the most part, it encapsulates the forces at work in this brutal world: “I was Cassandra’s catch-fart,” remarks Ritsa in the opening pages; “well, be honest, would you want that on your headstone?”

The narrative pulses with the inevitability of the Greek tragedies from which Barker draws, towards some sort of retribution by women for the horrors at Troy, acted out against Agamemnon, king of the Greeks. He will take the final, though not complete, punishment for the butchery and rape he led at Troy.

Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, whose daughter he slaughtered, paces within the haunted walls of Mycenae, planning her husband’s murder. At night she weaves a sleeveless tunic in which she’ll trap him on his return. (No prizes for spotting the parallel to Odysseus’ wife, Penelope.)

Cassandra is loaded up on a boat out of Troy, as the Trojan women are carted back to Greece, moving towards her prophesied fate. And Ritsa, an invention of Barker’s, former friend of Briseis (narrator of The Silence of the Girls, whom it seems Barker misses quite as much as Ritsa does) traipses in Cassandra’s wake. She watches the tragedy unravel, tossing in occasional wry reflections on the powerlessness of women and slaves.

And, through it all, the lurching journey towards Agamemnon’s murder is accompanied by raucous nursery rhymes from the ghosts of children who inhabit the walls of Mycenae’s palace – as well as their hand prints, smattering behind tapestries: “Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to CHOP OFF YOUR HEAD!”

There are lingering smears here of crimes that cannot be wiped clean. The murder of Clytemnestra’s daughter, Iphigenia, by her own father. The gruesome slaughter (and cannibalism) of Agamemnon’s nephews by his father. The horrific crime of babies tossed from the walls of Troy (on Agamemnon’s orders). All mix together in the voices of the ghost-children to generate a bubbling, fervid chorus that demand retribution, and broaden the crimes of war that Barker redresses from rape and enslavement to violence against children.

In so doing, Barker points a finger at women’s suffering, not only as rape victims, but as mothers. The image of the ghosts of Trojan boys skittering along behind their enslaved mothers on the forced march to captivity is not one I will soon forget.

Barker is too clever to allow her readers too much closure, though. As Ritsa is quick to point out, it wasn’t the Trojan women who got to take their rage and their vengeance out on Agamemnon: “he was killed by a Greek queen avenging an entirely different crime … The best those slave mothers could hope for was survival – and not all of them managed that”.

Only the rich and the powerful get to have their justice – and even then, as Clytemnestra knows, justice will soon turn against her, too. Though Agamemnon’s death goes some way to a satisfyingly bloody repayment for the destruction Barker has catalogued, there is a lingering sense that the children will always demand more. And therein lies the novel’s power: the redress against Agamemnon is both magnificent and insufficient.

As any Greek tragedy would tell you, loss can never truly be repaid. Grief is never over. The Trojan War, and the traumas its women endured, will not be forgotten.

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