Isabella Tree

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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]
  • Awarded the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Medal 2020[10]
  • Awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award 2021[11]

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. ^ Jump up to: a b "Want to meet some wild, adventurous and inspiring women?". Chipping Norton Literature Festival.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Frances Mayes; Jason Wilson (2002). The Best American Travel Writing 2002. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 347–. ISBN 0-618-11880-2.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Award-Winning Author Isabella Tree Presents Her New Book Wilding: returning nature to our farm". Bard.
  10. ^ "CIEEM Medal Winners 2020 – John Hopkins & Isabella Tree | CIEEM" Check |url= value (help). Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Royal Geographical Society - 2021 Awards". www.rgs.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.

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