The Cartographer Who Charted the Unseen

In 1826, a young British naval officer named Francis Beaufort spent weeks mapping the southern coast of Turkey, charting harbors and inlets that no European had documented in centuries. He measured depths, sketched coastlines, and recorded every submerged rock. Years later, sailors who had never met Beaufort navigated those waters safely because one man had known every hidden contour beneath the surface.…