Joos van Ghistele (c. 1446 in Ghent - c. 1525) was a Flemish nobleman, who spend four years (1481-1485) travelling around in the middle east and south Europe, including Italy, Greece, Balkans, Tunisia, the Levant, Egypt and the Red Sea all the way down to Aden.
His accounts was edited by Ambrosius Zeebout Priestre and posthumous published in 1557 as Tvoyage Mher Joos van Ghistele, with many later republishing. Three issues in Ghent alone (1557, 1563, 1572) in fifteen years, shows that the book attained considerable popularity in Flanders.
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