The twenty-ninth day : surviving a grizzly attack in the Canadian tundra / Alex Messenger.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2021, 2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9798200724499 (Large print edition)
- 9788200724490
- 8200724492
- 29th day
- Surviving a grizzly attack in the Canadian tundra
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book | Main Library | Large Print NonFiction | 971.9304 M584 | Available | 33111010761670 |
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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.