What is "backland"

Usage examples of "backland".

There were a number of communities of extras outside the Boot and the Backland who gathered in and helped the stream of new extras as they were forced away from their homes.

Even those whose clans were feuding in Boot or Backland set those differences aside while they were beyond the Distergas, the mountain range that cut Aggitj lands from the rest of the continent.

As she ate, she asked questions about what was happening in Boot and Backland, catching up on things that had happened in the twenty years since she left.

He took those on because they come from the orehills in the Backland and one is said to be an ore-sniffer, but I truly doubt that because no family would exile such an asset.

She looked north again, as far as she could see, to where distant mountain peaks rosea few to seaward, just north of Waterdeep, but most over to the north and east, in the northern backlands.

Crimson sunlight, entering through high windows, illuminated a pair of barbaric wall-hangings, woven in the backlands of Far Cutz.

And to get over the river and swamp from the backlands to here with a decent load of grain will be impossible until the ground freezes.

On one occasion men left the picket line, and under the most adverse circumstances, walked miles into the arid backlands to repair a communications link to ensure that the American spacecraft passing over the Indian Ocean could maintain its communication with Houston.

They heard those same thuddings in Sarth and in Helm Hollow beyond-and even along the backlands road, where men came out of their steadings to stare at what was raining down into their hog troughs and orchards alike, all around: small pieces of Bow-dragon and torn-armored Aglirtan warrior.

It was demoralizing to look like some cottonchopper goatherd from the backlands.

Most of them had been trappers, individualists who had pioneered in the Fenrian backlands before the companies took over.

But the voices of the backlands seemed even older, a rootwork of winds that held nothing he could comprehend except their emptiness.

We're going to seech out the Kalakal's Heart and kill him, then we're going after Ravvayad and after that if we're still around, we're slipping into the Backland, the Boy, us and any Sualasual still around, and we're going to kill our uncle if we can, and his Rossam and the soldi he keeps around because the other ashanku and him are always fighting and we're going to take his Hold, make it ours.

His mind shook open on a harp note that was also a call to a south wind burning across the backlands.

The flame glittered back at him endlessly, off walls of ice and fire, of gold, of sky-blue streaked with wind-swept silver like the night of the backlands rimed with a million stars.