Isabella Tree
British author and travel journalist
Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964) 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.
01Biography
Tree attended Millfield School. 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.
From 1993 to 1995, Tree was a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard. 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. She has written articles for The Guardian and National Geographic Magazine.
Tree is married to Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.
02Books
- 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.
03Awards
- 1996: Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)
- 1999: Overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards
- 2018: Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award (Wilding)
- 2018: One of the top ten science books, Smithsonian Magazine (Wilding)
- 2019: Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize (Wilding)
- 2020: Awarded the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Medal
- 2021: Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award
- 2023: Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (Wilding)
- 2024: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex
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