
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra (*Large Print)
Author: Alex MessengerBrand: Blackstone PublishingEdition: Unabridged LARGE PRINTBinding: PaperbackFormat: Large PrintNumber Of Pages: 304Release Date: 30-11-2021Details: A Wallstreet Journal Bestseller Finalist for the 2020 Minnesota Book Award A Midwest Indie Bestseller 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 an