Extra info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Scott_Flying_Stories
This story starts off with the author assuming that the reader has prior knowledge of Ted Scott, main character of the story, due to the fact that this book is the 10th of 20 books written by the author in this series. But being a person who had never read any of these books before, I was still able to understand most of the book.
This is a story about an aviator, Ted Scott, who is world-famous, known as the man who does the impossible like sail across the Atlantic, Pacific and everything in-between, on his way to visit a friend. But along the way he happens to go through a rough storm and has a rough landing near the home of Grace Larue and her mother.
Grace, hearing the noise, being stubborn to go out outside even against her mother's wishes, goes outside and discovers Ted Scott lying unconscious on the ground and gets her man-helper (person who does all dirty work around house or handy-man) to help her bring Ted Scott inside to warm and get healthy. After Ted Scott gains consciousness he discovers the presence of the strange people around him but soon realizes they are the people who have saved him. They ask his name and soon get excited over the presence of Ted Scott and ask him about all his adventures.
He decides to stay several more days to get to know these people better and to thank them for saving his life. When he gets fully recovered, he tells the people that before he crashed his plane that he was supposed to visit a friend and that he should be going soon. But before he could do so he had to fix the plane and clear a run-way for him to take off on. This was done through the generous assistance of Grace, her-man and the rest of the town once word had spread that Ted Scott needed help.
Once all was needed to be done was done, Ted Scott thanked all these people and stated to Grace that if she or any member of her family needed help to telegraph him and he would be there. Also he stated that if he came back that way that he would visit them again. Soon afterwards, he took off to visit his friend.
Once he landed and was able to meet his friend, several people came over and wanted to see and talk to Ted Scott but Ted Scott spent several days with his friend and their buddies from the days when Ted Scott was in the flight postal service (I assume from one of the previous books). But while visiting his friend Ted Scott receives a notice from Grace that her father and his team were missing and she was wondering if he would be willing to help. Ted Scott replied with a yes, accepted the challenge and assembled a team to go into Brazil to try and save her father and these men before it was too late.
After many days of storing gas, rations, ammo, etc., Ted Scott was able to assemble a team of four of the best aviators that they had contact with, including himself, as well as get a ship to hold all these items and a total of 8 people, 4 people plus 4 to save, and head off to Brazil. On the way to Brazil, Ted Scott and his gang encountered a vicious hurricane that they miraculously had escaped and landed in a "deserted camp". This camp was not deserted but happen to hold the occupancy of two men that escaped from captive where they were able to discover the location of where the last two captives (Grace's father and a man who Grace adored) were located.
While attempting to reach the destination, Ted Scott and his gang encountered a Snake, almost 100 monkeys, a native named Muri, hostile natives, a near crash due to powerfully dangerous flowers, and many other creatures. When they arrived Ted Scott went in alone to the camp so that if they failed only one would die rather than four. But while trying to find the captives, Ted Scott got captured himself.
During his imprisonment, he was able to talk to the captive men, whom he looked for, and was able to devise a plan to save them all. This plan involved a lot of risk and some lives being at risk. But they would not have made it without the help of the native they saved named Muri, who lead them out of the camp to their plane and allowed all to be saved.
In the end all 8 men were safe and were on their way to the states for a warm welcome and another flying adventure under the belt of the great aviator, Ted Scott.
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