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The twenty-ninth day : surviving a grizzly attack in the Canadian tundra [kit] / Alex Messenger.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1094091243 : PAP
ISBN: 9781094091242 : PAP
Physical Description: 12 books (303 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) in a tote box ; 11 x 15 x 7 in. + 1 folder.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Twelve copies of this title are in a book club kit for checkout.

Formatted Contents Note:

Entering the Tiaga: days 1-2 -- Winter: 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 -- A layover day: day 29, 10:00 -- A chance encounter: day 29, 19:29 -- 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 -- Learning to walk: day 30 -- Loss: days 31-32 -- Fear: day 33 -- Surgery: day 34 -- Evac: day 35 -- Premonition.