The Twenty-Ninth Day
Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
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Narrated by:
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Alex Messenger
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Written by:
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Alex Messenger
About this listen
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 PublishingWhat listeners say about The Twenty-Ninth Day
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Vinod Kumar K
- 30-12-21
Captivating Tundra
Wow!! Mr.Messenger manages to deliver the message-an account of his survival in the Tundra after a bear attack. Though based on a true story, it is kind of predictable if one is exposed to watching survival movies. But we must not be hesitant in admiring the person who goes on such an adventure
To a person who is boundlessly captivated by the outdoors, Alex dishes out page after page capturing the iciness and solitude of the tundra with its eerie silence and it is just bewitching. He does complete justice in capturing the beauty of the place in its entirety. At times, one might feel he is too focused on his own story & has forgotten what’s going on with others but let us remember that he is the one who is mauled by a bear and fighting for survival. Too much detailing beyond this would have made it a tiresome read but Alex withdraws at right time. The voice is just right as if it captures the sounds of silence.
The story doesn’t put the listener on tenterhooks, but the listening is of value for the enchanting beauty of the lakes, the cold, the rapids, the paddling, and of course the grizzly.
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