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The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

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The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger
Narrated by: Alex Messenger
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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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One of the best books I have had the pleasure to read and listen too, the narration is perfect, the story is absolutely stunning from start to finish, please take the time to listen to this book you will not be disappointed especially if you love the outdoors and being in the wild.

A truest fantastic book, life affirming and wild

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