Finalist for the 2020 Minnesota Book Award
An Outside Magazine Pick of Best Winter Books
A midwest indie bestseller
A canoe trip six-hundred miles into the Canadian wilderness is the adventure of a seventeen-year-old dream, but when he is ruled by a brown bear, it is all about survival.
This true-to-life wilderness survival epic comes with a deadly bear near eighteen-year-old Alex Messenger during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions, as they head north into the rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the journey, Alex is badly attacked on barren-ground while exiting alone. Left for dead, he finds that his summer adventure has become a struggle to survive. During the following hours and days, Alex and his companions heal their wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity and dogged perseverance to help in a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border.
The Twenty-ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no one else, full of inspiring subterranean landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling and a test of the human soul with fire.