The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

By: Alex Messenger

Narrated by: Alex Messenger

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 Publishing

Wonderful

Great adventure well written wonderful to listen to. Impressed with the poise and care of quite and Alex’s strength through the entire ordeal
Must read

gripping story of survival.

Book was a bit slow at times but the reader was captivating and held interest. Remarkable survival story.

Detailed and authentic

The story was interesting and detailed. It is an extraordinary story and must have taken such strength to re-tell. The narration was a bit monotone and methodical but he story made up for that.

Loved this book!

This book is well written and narrated by the author himself. I loved the adventure!

Impressive

Really good story line . Very descriptive about the Alaskan wilderness and the experience. Damn good book .

Incredible story!

This is the “real life adventure” that you hope will be in the books you read. You will cry, laugh, and pray for all the “boys” on this adventure. So glad you made it out alive.

Great story and great narration

Loved this story! First hand account make it an amazing listen. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Great adventure

This was well written. The discription of the land and situations that come up. you can obtainincision what is happening easily.

book is mostly about the trip of a lifetime.

so much of this story is background the story of a trip. with a smaller part being about the bear attack. he vividly describes the experience of the "trip of a lifetime."
I would say that the sacrifices made for him to continue on with the group were immense. in many respects the team learned a lot about sacrifice and loyalty. they learned about working with someone in pain physically and mentally. it probably has helped them in life be more sensitive to people around them.

Encouraging

I loved this book! An incredible real life story about perseverance of the human spirit in the face of adversity, and great tribute to the power and beauty of nature. Alex is an excellent narrator, and I always enjoy hearing the author read their own work when they are able to narrate well.