num_pages: 272
description: A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-olds dream adventure but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear its all about staying alive.This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messengers 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.
language: English
title: The Twenty-Ninth Day
publisher: Blackstone Publishing