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Joos van Ghistele (ca. 1446 in Ghent – ca. 1525) was a Flemish nobleman who spent four years (1481–1485) travelling around in the Middle East and southern Europe, including Italy, Greece, the Balkans, Tunisia, the Levant, Egypt and the Red Sea all the way down to Aden.

His accounts were edited by Ambrosius Zeebout, priest, and posthumously published in 1557 as Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele, with many later republications. Three editions in Ghent alone (1557, 1563, 1572) in fifteen years show that the book attained considerable popularity in Flanders.

Further reading

• Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele
• Ambrosius Zeebout. Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele. edition R.J.G.A.A. Gaspar.

See also

• John Mandeville
• Marco Polo

References

1. Ghistele, Joos van; Zeebout, Ambrosius (September 30, 1998). "Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele". Uitgeverij Verloren. Retrieved September 30, 2019 – via Google Books.
2. "Ambrosius Zeebout, Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele · dbnl". DBNL. Retrieved September 30, 2019.

• 1440s births
• 1520s deaths
• 15th-century explorers
• People from the Burgundian Netherlands
• Nobility from Ghent
• Burgundian Netherlands writers
• Nobility of the Burgundian Netherlands
• 15th-century explorers of Africa
• Explorers of Asia