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The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

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A 600-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a 17-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.

This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border.

The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.

©2019 Alex Messenger (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Animals Biological Sciences Camping Hiking Outdoors & Nature Science Adventure Survival Outdoor Adventure
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Listened to this in two days! I was absolutely gripped. And the performance was on point too. What an amazing story! Brave boys!

Five star!

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Incredible story.Calm clear narrative. Really exciting moments. Not a typical boys adventure .Highly recommend.

29th day.

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Alex, if i may abbreviate your name, your journey has been fascinating and truly inspiring, well done
for taking the time to re visit it slowly enough to capture so much detail.
I hope this experience is one you can draw on for life..

A true coming of age book for today.

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Couldn't listen to it , the narrator sounds like a grumpy teenager being forced to do his homework. Maybe the narrator found the book dull too? I couldn't listen to it.

Boring narration

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I loved this book from the beginning what a great story from start to finish

What a journey

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