{"product_id":"the-twenty-ninth-day-surviving-a-grizzly-attack-in-the-canadian-tundra-9781094091242","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMessenger, Alex:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Messenger\u003c\/b\u003e is a Duluth, Minnesota, author and photographer who, at seventeen, was mauled by a grizzly bear. In the decade since, he's 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Parks\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eOutside Online\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBackpacker\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50586139132178,"sku":"9781094091242","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ba0c4b95-104d-447d-92a3-f62ab75b5491.jpg?v=1737300830","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-twenty-ninth-day-surviving-a-grizzly-attack-in-the-canadian-tundra-9781094091242","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}