| We were setting out into terra incognita, marked only by blank spaces on the maps, drawn by the magnet of our ambition as explorers. |
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| The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots. |
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| Focusing on developing countries, we have to confess that most of these developments are a terra incognita for today's academic social science. |
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| One of the major attractions associated with investing here is that it is not terra incognita. |
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| By the early 17th century, terra incognita was shrinking and cartographers had to make room on their maps for new geographical information. |
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| My search for tramps has taken a side trip into terra incognita. |
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| When humans went to space for the first time in history, a mission to the terra incognita of the human mind had a lift-off too. |
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| Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons. |
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| At this stage, however, we are still largely treading on terra incognita. |
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| She sees prospects for growth in the ties between the two countries, but at the same acknowledges that for many Dutch business people, Bulgaria is still terra incognita. |
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| To set off for terra incognita with the hope of putting down roots in a new land. |
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| When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita. |
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| Giles was the last European to explore vast regions of unmapped desert in Central Australia, what the nineteenth century referred to as terra incognita. |
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| Even though she had a high school diploma in economics she did not have much confidence about doing the job because it was terra incognita for her. |
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| It seems clear that United Nations recruitment continues to be a terra incognita in which people are recruited into the organization in various vague ways. |
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| Through their ongoing dialogue, which they have kept for a long time, they stimulate our own reflection, precisely because they do not hesitate to venture into zones of terra incognita. |
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| The songs were terra incognita until Ms. Farnum explored them for this recital and for a recording she has made with the same excellent airy-toned and alacritous pianist, Margaret Kampmeier. |
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