Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at
every turn, Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable
academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate
Syme (b 1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). After years
of frustration, Pitt finally stumbles into the good fortune he
hopes will make his name: he uncovers a manuscript written by a
fledgling scientist which recounts a year in the company of the
irrespresible Syme. Teeming with comic detail and fierce
intelligence, The Syme Papers recreates a time when to question the
world and the origin of creation was the greatest project a
scientist could undertake. It is a novel of genius and failure; of
a man who thought he could prove the world was hollow, and in the
glorious process of discover, broke his own heart.
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