Isabella Tree Explained

Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964)^[1] is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the book that describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3500abbr=offNaNabbr=off wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.

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

• Book: Tree, Isabella . Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea . 1996 . 9780864423696 . Lonely Planet Publications . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. Sliced Iguana . 2001 . 1845114965 . Bloomsbury USA . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould . 2004 . 071262158X . Barrie & Jenkins . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. The Living Goddess . 2014 . Eland Publishing . 978-0143422549 . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. . 2018 . 9781509805105 . Pan Macmillan . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. Second Nature . 2020 . 9781909889361 . Granta . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. When We Went Wild . 2021 . 9780711262850 . Ivy Kids . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. When The Storks Came Home . 2022 . 9780711272798 . Ivy Kids Eco . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small . 2023 . 9781526659293 . Bloomsbury . none.
• Book: Tree, Isabella . –––––. Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back, The Illustrated Guide for Children . 2024 . . none.

Awards

• 1996: Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)^[9]
• 1999: Overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards^[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

• Wilding (2023 film)

External links

• IsabellaTree.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Isabella Tree . 2025-01-13 . thegentlewoman.co.uk . en.
2. Web site: Notable Alumni . . 26 October 2022.
3. Web site: Blanchard . Tamsin . Isabella Tree . 2023-10-25 . thegentlewoman.co.uk . en.
4. Web site: Isabella Tree. rolfpotts.com. November 2003 . 26 January 2020.
5. Web site: Biography . isabellatree.com . 16 September 2016.
6. Web site: Isabella Tree . . 2 April 2025.
7. Web site: Isabella Tree . . 2 April 2025.
8. Web site: Isabella Tree . www.isabellatree.com/ . 2 April 2025.
9. Web site: Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women? . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200923123618/https://www.chiplitfest.com/blog/want-to-meet-some-wild-adventurous-and-inspiring-women . 23 September 2020 . Chipping Norton Literature Festival.
10. Book: Mayes, Frances . The Best American Travel Writing 2002 . Jason Wilson . . 2002 . 0-618-11880-2 . 347–.
11. Web site: Richard Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literature Prize 2018.
12. Web site: Ten Best Science Books 2018 . Smithsonian Magazine.
13. Web site: Wilding . Wainwright Prize.
14. Web site: September 2020 . CIEEM Medal Winners 2020 – John Hopkins & Isabella Tree . 2021-08-13.
15. Web site: Royal Geographical Society – 2021 Awards . 2021-08-13 . www.rgs.org.
16. Web site: Prestigious awards honour stars of conservation science | ZSL .
17. Web site: Ellis . Lauren . Knepp Estate's founder Isabella Tree awarded Honorary Doctorate at University of Sussex summer graduation . . 24 July 2024.