Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree (born 1964) is a British author and travel journalist. 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.

Career

From 1993 to 1995, Tree was, a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.[1] 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.[2] As of 2016 she writes for the Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Observer, History Today[3] and Conde Nast Traveller. Her work has also appeared in Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction, Rough Guides Women Travel and The Best American Travel Writing.

Personal life

She married Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.

Books
  • Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea. 1996. ISBN 9780864423696.
  • Sliced Iguana. 2001. ISBN 1845114965.
  • The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould. 2004. ISBN 071262158X.
  • The Living Goddess. 2014. ISBN 0143422545.
  • Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm. 2018. ISBN 9781509805105.

Awards
  • 2019: Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize (Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm)[4]
  • 2018: Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award (Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm)[5]
  • 2018: One of the top ten science books - Smithsonian Magazine (Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm) [6]
  • Overall winner of the 1999 Travelex Travel Writer Awards[7][8]
  • "Spetses. Greece" was included in the series Best American Travel Writing[9][8]
  • Included work as part of the 1998 series Reader’s Digest Today’s Best Non-Fiction[9]
  • Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)[7]

References
  1. "Isabella Tree". rolfpotts.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  2. "Biography". isabellatree.com. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  3. Tree, Isabella (April 2015). "The Living Goddess of Nepal". History Today. 65 (4). Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  4. "Wilding". Wainwright Prize.
  5. "Richar Jefferies Society & White Horse Bookshop Literature Prize 2018".
  6. "Ten Best Science Books 2018". Smithsonian.
  7. "Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women?". Chipping Norton Literature Festival.
  8. Frances Mayes; Jason Wilson (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 347–. ISBN 0-618-11880-2.
  9. "Award-Winning Author Isabella Tree Presents Her New Book Wilding: returning nature to our farm". Bard.
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