Book : The Twenty-ninth Day Surviving A Grizzly Attack In...

-Titulo Original : The Twenty-ninth Day Surviving A Grizzly Attack In The Canadian Tundra

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Blackstone Publishing

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Review The Twenty-Ninth Day is the kind of book that requires the reader to set some time aside. Intrigued to find out what happens next, phone calls will go to voicemail and work deadlines will get postponed. His story is a solid addition to the genre of wilderness survival tales. --Minneapolis Star TribuneThe Twenty-Ninth Day is the kind of book that requires the reader to set some time aside. Intrigued to find out what happens next, phone calls will go to voicemail and work deadlines will get postponed. His story is a solid addition to the genre of wilderness survival tales. --Minneapolis Star TribuneThe premise of Alex Messengers debut The Twenty-Ninth Day is as inviting and cinematic as the precredits movie opening it will certainly be before you or I are much older ... The whole thing is told in exactly the same kind of upbeat (Alex survives, obviously), turbo-charged prose that filled, for instance, Aron Ralstons Between a Rock and a Hard Place ...All thats left is for Stranger Things Finn Wolfhard to step into the role of Alex and do his best with a CGI bear. --Open Letters Review Over and over, Alex Messenger and his young comrades commit and recommit themselves to the perils of canoeing through the raw, bare landscape of Canadas far north. And when the worst happens, all of them -- Messenger included, despite his wounds -- rise to the daunting challenge with wit and skill. The result is one of the most harrowing first-person accounts of wilderness survival Ive ever come across. Its also a tribute to youth, good training, inexplicable luck and -- when the chips are really down -- sheer human courage. -- Catherine Watson, award-winning writer and writing coach A Wallstreet Journal Bestseller Finalist for the 2020 Minnesota Book Award An Outside Magazine Pick of Best Winter BooksA Midwest Indie BestsellerA 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. About the Author Alex Messenger is a Duluth, Minnesota, author and photographer who, at seventeen, was mauled by a grizzly bear. In the decade since, hes worked as a wilderness guide and volunteer search-and-rescue operator. His love of adventure, nature, and cultures has taken him all over the globe, but the north woods and canoe country have always been among his favorite subjects. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Mens Journal, National Parks magazine, Outside Online, and Backpacker magazine.