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The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

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The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger
Narrated by: Alex Messenger
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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 Publishing Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Animals Biological Sciences Camping Hiking Outdoors & Nature Science Adventure Outdoor Outdoor Adventure

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this was a really good transcript of a true life story.. but I feel it could have been more enjoyable to listen too, if it was read by someone else as it seemed very flat. I believe this was due to the author reading it and not wanting to get to emotional about his story.

really good transcript

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It is such a fantastic story but I'm afraid I can't finish it as the narration is starting to make me feel sleepy. There are just no levels, maybe professional narration would be a better option.

A fantastic story but I'm giving up

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Great adventure, well written and narrated.
Quite enjoyable to listen to.
Well done for keeping it together :)

Nice book, Worth a listen

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This is a pleasant (and not so pleasant of course!) wilderness adventure tale and speaks volumes of what a person can endure. Also a really inspiring example of what youngsters could be getting up to rather than sitting on their PlayStations 24-7!
However, it would have been so much better with a professional narrator. The author has a perfectly pleasant voice, but it's just so flat. I hate to use that word that gets thrown about a lot when people don't like a narrator, but a bit monotone. The cadence felt the same no matter if we were hearing about a beautiful experience in nature...or a bear was muching his leg! Still worth a look if you like this genre.

worth a look but lacklustre narration

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Alex, if i may abbreviate your name, your journey has been fascinating and truly inspiring, well done
for taking the time to re visit it slowly enough to capture so much detail.
I hope this experience is one you can draw on for life..

A true coming of age book for today.

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I thought it was a great true account, the author is lucky to be alive, the mustn't have tasted good, what a story!

Lucky Boy!

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Couldn't listen to it , the narrator sounds like a grumpy teenager being forced to do his homework. Maybe the narrator found the book dull too? I couldn't listen to it.

Boring narration

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Incredible story and I love that it is Alex who narrates. I have listened to it twice now and will probably do so again.
Amazing

Incredible

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One of the best books I have had the pleasure to read and listen too, the narration is perfect, the story is absolutely stunning from start to finish, please take the time to listen to this book you will not be disappointed especially if you love the outdoors and being in the wild.

A truest fantastic book, life affirming and wild

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Listened to this in two days! I was absolutely gripped. And the performance was on point too. What an amazing story! Brave boys!

Five star!

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