Isabella Tree

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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.

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Isabella Tree
Born1964 (age 6061)
EducationUniversity of London
Occupation(s)Conservationist, writer
SpouseCharles Burrell
Children2
MotherLady Anne Tree
RelativesEdward Cavendish (grandfather)
Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother)
Ronald Tree (grandfather)
Nancy Lancaster (grandmother)
Websiteisabellatree.com
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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

  • 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.

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