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The twenty-ninth day : surviving a grizzly attack in the Canadian tundra / Alex Messenger.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982583330 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1982583339 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : map (on endpages) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Part I -- Entering the taiga: days 1-2 -- Water: days 3-8 -- Ice: days 9-13 -- Dubawnt Lake: days 14-16 -- The final push on Dubawnt Lake: days 17-18 -- Dubawnt Canyon: days 19-20 -- Ebb and flow: days 21-23 -- Leaving the Dubawnt River / trailblazing: days 24-25 -- The Kunwak: days 26-27 -- Fate: day 28 -- Part II -- A layover day: day 29, 10:00 -- A chance encounter: day 29, 19:20 -- Awakening: day 29, 19:31 -- Airway, breathing, circulation: day 29, 19:41 -- What now? Day 29, 19:45 -- The evacuation algorithm: day 29, 19:50 -- The night: day 29, 23:00 -- Part III -- Learning to walk: day 30 -- Loss: days 31-32 -- Fear: day 33 -- Surgery: day 34 -- Evac: day 35 -- Premonition -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Author's note. |
| Target Audience Note: | General Adult. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. Bildungsromans. |
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