Isabella Tree
British author and travel journalist
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Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964)[1] is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the book Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm that describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3,500-acre (1,400-hectare) wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.
Isabella Tree | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Education | University of London |
| Occupations | Conservationist, writer |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Edward Cavendish (grandfather) Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother) Ronald Tree (grandfather) Nancy Lancaster (grandmother) |
| Website | isabellatree |
Biography
Tree attended Millfield School.[2] She was adopted by an aristocratic British family as a baby. She read Classics, following the advice of author Iris Murdoch and went to the University of London.[3]
From 1993 to 1995, Tree was a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.[4] In 1999 she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards for a feature on Nepal's Kumaris, or "Living Goddesses" – "High and Mighty" – for the Sunday Times.[5] She has written articles for The Guardian[6] and National Geographic Magazine.[7]
Tree is married to Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.[8]
Books
- Tree, Isabella (1996). Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 9780864423696.
- ––––– (2001). Sliced Iguana. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1845114965.
- ––––– (2004). The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould. Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 071262158X.
- ––––– (2014). The Living Goddess. Eland Publishing. ISBN 978-0143422549.
- ––––– (2018). Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781509805105.
- ––––– (2020). Second Nature. Granta. ISBN 9781909889361.
- ––––– (2021). When We Went Wild. Ivy Kids. ISBN 9780711262850.
- ––––– (2022). When The Storks Came Home. Ivy Kids Eco. ISBN 9780711272798.
- ––––– (2023). The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781526659293.
- ––––– (2024). Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back, The Illustrated Guide for Children.
Awards
- 1996: Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)[9]
- 1999: Overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards[9][10]
- 2018: Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award (Wilding)[11]
- 2018: One of the top ten science books – Smithsonian Magazine (Wilding) [12]
- 2019: Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize (Wilding)[13]
- 2020: Awarded the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Medal[14]
- 2021: Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award[15]
- 2023: Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (Wilding)[16]
- 2024: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex[17]