Isabella Tree
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Isabella Tree | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) |
| Education | University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Conservationist, writer |
| Spouse | Charles Burrell |
| Children | 2 |
| Mother | Lady Anne Tree |
| Relatives | Edward Cavendish (grandfather) Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother) Ronald Tree (grandfather) Nancy Lancaster (grandmother) |
| Website | isabellatree |
Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964)[1] is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award-winning 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.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Isabella Tree". thegentlewoman.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ "Notable Alumni". Millfield School. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ Blanchard, Tamsin. "Isabella Tree". thegentlewoman.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ "Isabella Tree". rolfpotts.com. November 2003. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ "Biography". isabellatree.com. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Isabella Tree". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Isabella Tree". National Geographic Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Isabella Tree". www.isabellatree.com/. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ a b "Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women?". Chipping Norton Literature Festival. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020.
- ^ Mayes, Frances; Jason Wilson (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 347–. ISBN 0-618-11880-2.
- ^ "Richard Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literature Prize 2018".
- ^ "Ten Best Science Books 2018". Smithsonian Magazine.
- ^ "Wilding". Wainwright Prize.
- ^ "CIEEM Medal Winners 2020 – John Hopkins & Isabella Tree". September 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Royal Geographical Society – 2021 Awards". www.rgs.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Prestigious awards honour stars of conservation science | ZSL".
- ^ Ellis, Lauren (24 July 2024). "Knepp Estate's founder Isabella Tree awarded Honorary Doctorate at University of Sussex summer graduation". University of Sussex.
