Marc Wiltz

Born in Saint-Mandé on 12 September 1961, Marc Wiltz spent his entire childhood in Le Havre, until the age of 22. Having graduated from the École supérieure de commerce du Havre in 1983, Marc Wiltz experienced theatre, radio, publishing and an internship at the Maison de la Culture. Then he worked at IBM, spent two years in Africa before becoming a film recording studio manager for 4 years. Marc Wiltz has always developed two passions in life: books and travelling, which led him to create MAGELLAN & Cie in 1999, bringing the two together. This publishing house now has a catalogue of 250 titles, many of which based on a ‘cinema’-style arrangement, as the publisher likes to call it, meaning finding the equivalent of the post-production advances on receipts approach.

 “Le Tour du Monde en 80 livres”: in 28 chapters, from “Mythologies” to “Conquérants”, through “being grown-up children”, “observers of civilisations” and exploring the “best ways to use transport”, Marc Wiltz offers a new insight into 80 books - with travel as their main theme - that have had an influence on him.