{"product_id":"books-the-twenty-ninth-day-by-alex-messenger","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Day","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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672793637137,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781094091242.jpg?v=1781521279","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-twenty-ninth-day-by-alex-messenger","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}