Gerald Durrell — a brilliant naturalist writer and famous traveler — possessed an incomparable gift for storytelling and subtle humor. His books helped millions of children and adults around the world to look anew at the living world and feel themselves an integral part of it. "The Aye-Aye and I" is a gripping account of an expedition to one of the most enchanting islands on earth, in Durrell’s words — Madagascar, famous for the fact that ninety percent of its flora and fauna is found nowhere else on the planet. Recreating the picture of this picturesque piece of land, the author tells of the hunt for the Beast with the Magic Finger, of the giant jumping rat and the flat tortoise from Morondava, of the gentle lemurs living in reed thickets by a vanishing lake, and of other unusual representatives of the living world. "Ark on the Move" is the story of the fate of the famous zoo created by Durrell on the sunny island of Jersey and of the celebration of its anniversary.