Download or read book The Captain of Estel: Books One and Two written by Sylvia Emgdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, consisting of the two novels Defender of the Flame and Herald of the Flame, is the story of the long and momentous life of one man and the strange turns of fate that take him from his planned career as an ordinary starship pilot to acclaim as a legendary hero and ultimately to a destiny far beyond anything he or his contemporaries could have imagined.