red earth
a clayey zonal soil of tropical savanna lands, formed by extensive chemical weathering, coloured by iron compounds, and less strongly leached than laterite
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His first novel, red earth and Pouring Rain (1995), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book.
Vikram Chandra Is A Novelist Who's Obsessed With Writing Computer Code | Jane Ciabattari | August 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Turks (especially those of the lower orders) use a kind of clay pipe made of red earth decorated with gilding.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The quarry runs irregularly in heaps and hollows of chalk and red earth mingled like flesh and blood.
The Old Front Line | John MasefieldIn time the snake gnawed them free from their foundations and the red-earth pair wandered off together.
Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete | Charles M. SkinnerThe Onondagas say that the Indians are made from red earth and the white men from sea-foam.
Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete | Charles M. Skinner
Little mounds of red earth frequently appeared above the grass, to testify to the labors of miners along this part of the route.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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