Joos van Ghistele

Joos van Ghistele

Joos van Ghistele (c. 1446 in Ghent - c. 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 Priestre" and posthumously published in 1557 as "Tvoyage 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

* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9065500316&id=dm2hLMTAthQC&dq=JOOS+de+RIJCKE Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele]
* [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/zeeb002tvoy01_01/index.htm Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele,Ambrosius Zeebout, editie R.J.G.A.A. Gaspar]

ee also

* John Mandeville
* Marco Polo


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