What happens when you're mauled by a bear 1,000 miles from civilization? 17-year-old Alex Messenger set out on what should have been a 42-day canoe trip in the Canadian Subarctic-one of the most desolate places on Earth, when the unthinkable happened. With rescue resources scarce and hundreds of miles of wilderness still ahead of him, Alex would have to figure out how to survive his injuries and make it home.
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The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger
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