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 … 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.
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I loved this book. This story is a great account of an exciting adventure by young explorers. The author has the skill to put you where he was and feel what he felt during this memorable time in his life. His writing is clean and uncluttered and it stayed with me after I finished it. I appreciate Alex sharing this story with me!
I liked it; about 6 teenage boys on an extended canoe trip through the northern wilderness.
It was a true story about a high school student on a canoe trip who gets bitten by a bear and finally has to be evacuated to a hospital after many days. I loved it.
I love true adventure books and this is a heck of a good one.
I thought the book read more like a factual journal – lots of information on where they put up camp and where they were headed the next day – but very little emotional input. The author was 17 at the time of this trip; was he excited, was he familiar with all of his companions, and so forth. I guess I expected a more personal side to the story. Also, don’t know if it was just the e-book layout or not, but the definitions of certain words were placed at the end of the book when it would have been more helpful to have them at the beginning. Not knowing much about the type of boats they were using or the territory they were in, I would have appreciated a bit more detail. Nevertheless, I finished the story, the encounter with the bear must have truly been a nightmare for him.
A very interesting survival story. Great descriptions of the landscape.
Expertly written, this is an amazing true story. Read it … i highly recommend.
Best book I’ve read in a while. Its a true story but whoever wrote it did a great job. Never boring or filled with tedious info. You almost feel like you’re there.