Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964) 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 acres (1,400 ha) wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.
From 1993 to 1995, Tree was, a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.[3] 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.[4] As of 2022 she writes for the The Guardian and National Geographic Magazine.
Personal lifeedit
She married Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex. Her father was the son of Ronald Tree and a member of a well connected Anglo-American family active in politics and public life on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. She has two children, one of whom is called Nancy and researches rewilding at Oxford University.
Booksedit
Tree, Isabella (1996). Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN9780864423696.
Tree, Isabella (2001). Sliced Iguana. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN1845114965.
Tree, Isabella (2004). The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould. Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN071262158X.
^ ab"Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women?". Chipping Norton Literature Festival.
^Frances Mayes; Jason Wilson (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 347–. ISBN0-618-11880-2.
^"CIEEM Medal Winners 2020 – John Hopkins & Isabella Tree | CIEEM". September 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
^"Royal Geographical Society – 2021 Awards". www.rgs.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
External linksedit
IsabellaTree.com
January 01, 1970
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