The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

    • 4.4 • 259 Ratings
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Publisher Description

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-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 seventeen-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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2019
November 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Blackstone Publishing
SELLER
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
SIZE
14.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Sunshinemjm ,

Bear

Interesting narration of an adventurous trip.

Loved the book!! ,

H

Ok

Bobcat602 ,

Very dissatisfying

The book cover was very misleading. I was expecting more of a gruesome attack & was hoping to feel inspired by someone overcoming extreme adversity. Definitely didn’t feel that reading this book. The bear attack itself was a very small part of the book & wasn’t as severe as one would expect. Most of the book is about a boring canoeing trip.

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