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Sri Lanka and the Great StormThe most obvious things usually matter most - and Sri Lanka's island status is just that. Capacious though the country is, it is nevertheless, a single island; a piece of land unattached to anything else or a mere part of a string of other infant islands that make up an archipelago. And that fact - more than any other - has determined the country's character; for islands, as Richard Dawkins, remarked, "are natural workshops of evolution." As Sri Lanka because an island, the mighty magnetic pull of the sub-continent become more remote, and the country continued its journey forward, an island that would put down its own unique roots, to create a history to dwarf that of most other countries, ten times larger. In The Island That Floated Away, book two in The Ceylon Press History of Sri Lanka, take a tour of how Sri Lankan became an island - and what that meant for all that was already there before the seas closed in. The Ceylon Press Pocket Professor History of Sri Lanka is made up of 100 very short books, or talks, which explore the great themes of Sri Lankan history, alongside its day-to-day story down the centuries. It can also be enjoyed as a Podcast at theceylonpress.com.